The condition, in the definition settled at the 1996 World Food Summit, of all people at all times having physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food. The concept reframed hunger from a production problem to an access problem, following Amartya Sen's demonstration that modern famines have happened amid adequate supply; it is the stated goal of the FAO and the measure agricultural policy answers to. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin YearThe term entered international usage at the 1974 World Food Conference; the standard four-pillar definition dates to the 1996 World Food Summit. Classification
Concept ClassFood Security, Land and Rural Livelihoods 1 Connections
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Food security, prices and access, is one of agricultural economics' central applied concerns.
Source Wikipedia: Agricultural economics
Aquaculture, Disciplines Farmed fish and shellfish are among the fastest-growing sources of protein counted toward global food security.
Source Aquaculture (Wikipedia)
Amartya Sen's entitlement analysis of this famine reframed hunger from supply to access, the core of modern food security
Source Bengal Famine of 1943 (Wikipedia)
Food security is the core mandate of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
A deliberate sharpening of food security: control of the food system, not only access to food
Source Food Sovereignty (Wikipedia)
Food security is the core mandate of the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Source Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Wikipedia)
The North Korean famine of the 1990s followed the loss of Soviet-bloc aid, fuel and fertilizer and severe flooding, a food security collapse rather than a single crop failure.
The UN's food assistance arm; the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize recognized its work against hunger and starvation as a weapon
Source World Food Programme (Wikipedia)
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The condition, in the definition settled at the 1996 World Food Summit, of all people at all times having physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food.
Wikipedia: Agricultural economics
Aquaculture (Wikipedia)
Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Wikipedia)
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He was awarded the Bolton L. Corson Medal in 1976 and the World Food Prize in 1991.
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