INDEV100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: World Food Summit, Food Security, Malnutrition
31 Oct 2018
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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 happy life (world food summit, 1996) Four dimensions of food security: physical availability of food: This refers to sufficient quantities of food available on a consistent basis. It address the supply of food which is determined by food production, stock levels and trade. Components of food availability: production, distribution, exchange: economic and physical access to food. This implies economic ability and sufficient resources of households to purchase food and the political capacity to control food related decisions. Components of food access: affordability, allocation, preference: food use. This is the ability to make healthy food choices. Components of food utilisation: nutritional value, social value, food safety: food stability. This refers to the stability of the other 3 dimensions. Economic factors may influence an individual"s food security status.
