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 Added: 01-Jan-2000
 Updated: 12-Dec-2001
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 Tina Farmer
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 Jean-Charles Le Vallee
 
 
 
 
Food Security
        
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Achieving food security means ensuring that sufficient food is available, that supplies are relatively stable and that those in need of food can obtain it. It is in the interest of all governments to make sure that people have enough to eat. Hungry people cannot work; hungry children cannot learn. Without a well-nourished, healthy population, development is unattainable.
 
Food security depends on three factors: availability, stability and accessibility of food supplies. To achieve national food security, a country must be able to grow sufficient food or have enough foreign exchange to enable it to import food. Similarly, households must have sufficient income to purchase the food they are unable to grow for themselves.
 
 
 
 
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Portal to an information exchange on sustainable development and poverty reduction, with a section devoted to addressing key issues on food security  Development Gateway - Food Security Portal to an information exchange on sustainable development and poverty reduct...  Editor's Choice
resources on river basin management, groundwater, irrigation, and the integrated management of water Development Gateway: Water Resources Management resources on river basin management, groundwater, irrigation, and the integrate...  
FAO homepage: articles on food security and the right to food Food: a fundamental human right FAO homepage: articles on food security and the right to food 
The Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA) GPA: Global Prog. of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment  The Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment fro...  
Improving water and land resources management for food, livelihoods and nature - part of the CGIAR International Water Management Institute Improving water and land resources management for food, livelihoods and nature ...  Editor's Choice
Website on FAO's Special Programme for Food Security Special Programme for Food Security Website on FAO's Special Programme for Food Security Editor's Choice
Conference on attaining sustainable food security organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)  Sustainable Food Security For All by 2020 Conference on attaining sustainable food security organized by the Internationa...  
Description of the food insecurity problem and related policies The State of Food Insecurity in the World Description of the food insecurity problem and related policies Editor's Choice
food and environment research organization of the CGIAR The World Fish Center food and environment research organization of the CGIAR 
Official FAO Website on the World Food Summit: five years later (June 2002) World Food Summit: five years later Official FAO Website on the World Food Summit: five years later (June 2002)...  
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An ICES report on the environmental status of European seas and on issues of concern Environmental Status of European Seas An ICES report on the environmental status of European seas and on issues of co...  
Irrigation produces much of the world's food, but about a tenth of the world's irrigated land has been damaged by salt. The Salt of the Earth: Hazardous for Food Production Irrigation produces much of the world's food, but about a tenth of the world's ...  
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Fisheries Department of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN FAO Fisheries Department Fisheries Department of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN...  
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