Definitions for "Food Security"
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
For families, the ability to meet the food needs of everyone in the family, providing freedom from hunger and malnutrition.
Food security describes a situation in which people do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. World-wide around 852 million men, women and children are chronically hungry due to extreme poverty; while up to 2 billion people lack food security intermittently due to varying degrees of poverty. (source: FAO, 2003).