Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economical access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. (The 1996 World Food Summit)
The ability to access enough food, at all times, and in socially acceptable ways, for an active, healthy life.
Knowing that you have enough food
The reliable availability of a sufficient quantity and quality of nutritious food for a population. As used by some NGOs, the term also requires that localities or regions be self sufficient, in apparent ignorance of the impossibility of combining this with the first definition.
conditions whereby people have both physical and economic access to food at all times
The condition of having both physical and economic access to the basic food that people need to function normally.
The ability of individuals to obtain sufficient food on a day-to-day basis.
Can be defined as the "state in which all persons obtain a nutritionally adequate, culturally acceptable diet at all times through local non-emergency sources."
Access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. At minimum, this includes the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods and the assured ability to acquire personally acceptable foods in a socially acceptable way. Characteristics of a food secure community include: The availability of a variety of foods at a reasonable cost Ready access to grocery stores and other food sources Enough personal income to purchase adequate food to meet nutritional needs of all household members Freedom to choose acceptable foods Personal confidence in the safety and quantity of food available Easy access to good information and nutrition
is when "all people, especially the most vulnerable and least resilient have dignified and unthreatening access to the quantity and quality of culturally appropriate food that will fully support the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health".
Physical and economic access, at all times, to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life
Access to adequate and sustainable food supplies.
Assured access for every person by either production or ability to purchase, to enough nutritious food to sustain productive human life.
A situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life
Access to enough food for an active, healthy life. At a minimum, food security includes: (1) the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and (2) an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (e.g., without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging or other coping strategies).
Access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. It includes at a minimum (1) the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and (2) an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.
Access by all people at all times to enough food for an active healthy life. Food security at a minimum includes the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, and an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways, that is, without having to resort to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies. Causes of food insecurity may include poverty, civil conflict, governmental corruption, environmental degradation, and natural disasters.