Name: Kavita
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 8-13

Food security is a mean of guaranteed access of all humans to all essential nutrition necessary for their survival. It refers to condition of household’s or country’s ability to provide future physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that fulfils the dietary needs and food preferences for living an active and healthy lifestyle. The case for urgent action in the food security is now compelling. We are at a unique moment in history as diverse factors converge to affect the demand, production and distribution of food over the next 20 to 40 years. The requirement of a growing world population will be hard to be satisfied as critical resources such as water, energy and land are becoming increasingly scarce. The food system must become sustainable, while adapting to climate change and substantially contributing to climate change mitigation. It is the need of the hour to multiply our efforts to address hunger, which continues to affect so many. Food is an essential element that all human beings must have access to in order to live. Access to the minimum essential food which is sufficient nutritionally adequate and safe as well as acceptable, physically accessible are considered to be the basic human rights. Human rights are those which are fundamental for living and for normal human existence