Food Security, Vulnerability and Social Sustainability

Jean-Luc Dubois
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Jean-Luc Dubois: C3ED - Centre d'économie et d'éthique pour l'environnement et le développement - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

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Abstract: Several countries in Southern Africa are presently facing acute food security issues. Nearly 13 million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe are involved in a food crisis which requires about 3 millions tons of cereals to ensure food security for everyone. Food security is considered differently when the focus is on the macro or the micro level. On the macroeconomic level, food security means that enough food has to be available to cover the population's whole nutritional requirements. On the micro level, i.e. for the households and the individuals, three conditions need to be respected: sufficient food at the macro level, stability in the supply, and a regular access to the corresponding availabilities for all households and their members.

Keywords: food security; social sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-03-18
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Published in Food Security in Southern Africa. Causes and Responses from the Region, Mar 2003, Pretoria, South Africa. p. 15-21

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