An Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Food Security

Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO]

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Abstract: Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

Keywords: food security; access to food; food insecurity; hunger; malnutrition and poverty; productivity; food insecure; food security programmes; food deprivation; undernutrition; Dietary Diversity; rising food prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08
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