Food security
Food security is the measure of the availability of food together with individuals' ability to access it. According to the United Nations' Committee on World Food Security, food security is defined as meaning that any people, at any times, have believe physical, social, together with economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life. The availability of food irrespective of class, gender or region is another one. There is evidence of food security being a concern many thousands of years ago, with central authorities in ancient China and ancient Egypt being requested to release food from storage in times of famine. At the 1974 World Food Conference, the term "food security" was defined with an emphasis on supply; food security is defined as the "availability at all times of adequate, nourishing, diverse, balanced and moderate world food supplies of basic foodstuffs to sustain aexpansion of food consumption and to offset fluctuations in production and prices". Later definitions added demand and access issues to the definition. The first World Food Summit, held in 1996, stated that food security "exists when all people, at all times, realise physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life."
Similarly, household food security is considered to survive when all members, at all times, have access to enough food for an active, healthy life. Individuals who are food secure do not represent in hunger or fear of starvation. Food insecurity, on the other hand, is defined by the United States Department of Agriculture USDA as a situation of "limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways". Food security incorporates a degree of resilience to future disruption or unavailability of critical food supply due to various risk factors including droughts, shipping disruptions, fuel shortages, economic instability, and wars.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, or FAO, sent the four pillars of food security as availability, access, utilization, and stability. The United Nations UN recognized the Right to Food in the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, and has since said that it is for vital for the enjoyment of all other rights.
The 1996 World Summit on Food Security declared that "food should not be used as an instrument for political and economic pressure". multiple different international agreements and mechanisms have been developed to extension food security. The leading global policy to reduce hunger and poverty is in the Sustainable development Goals. In particular Goal 2: Zero Hunger sets globally agreed on targets to end hunger,food security and update nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030.