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q 1974, UN World Food Conference

            “Availability at all times of adequate world food supplies of basic foodstuffs to sustain a steady expansion of food consumption and to offset fluctuations in production and prices.”

q 1983, UN FAO

            “Ensuring that all people at all times have both physical and economic access to the basic food that they need.”

q 1986, World Bank

“Food security is access of all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life”

q 1990, USDA

Food security means an access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food security includes at a minimum (1) the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and (2) an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (that is, without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies).”

q 1996, UN FAO

“Food security, at the individual, household, national, regional and global levels is achieved 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

New Millennium

q 2001, UN FAO

            “Food security is a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.”