FOOD SECURITY

Specialty Definition: FOOD SECURITY

Domain	Definition
Agriculture	Access by all people at all times to enough food for an active healthy life. Food security at a minimum includes the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, and an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways, that is, without having to resort to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies. The World Food Summit, convened in Rome in November 1996 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, estimated that 800 million people worldwide do not have enough food to meet their basic nutritional needs. Representatives of the more than 180 nations attending the Summit pledged to work to reduce this number by half by no later than 2015. Causes of food insecurity may include poverty, civil conflict, governmental corruption, environmental degradation, and natural disasters. A U.S. position paper on international (world) food security, released in October 1997, argues that food security also requires "..social and economic conditions which empower individuals to gain access to food, either by producing food themselves or earning income to buy food.". (references)
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Specialty Definition: Food security

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Food security is a term used in development and humanitarian aid. It does not have one agreed definition, and is often used broadly to mean a situation in which people have continuity of food supply, or the methods by which this is achieved.

A commonly used definition is that a community enjoys food security when all people, at all times, have access to nutritious, safe, personally acceptable and culturally appropriate foods, produced in ways that are environmentally sound and socially just.

The term (in a development context) grew out of a reaction to the problems associated with food aid, a development paradigm in which the solution to hunger is seen as being the donation of surplus food commodities by (usually) rich developed nations. The focus of food security interventions is usually the development of indegenous coping mechanism to fight hunger and malnutrition.

Synonym: FOOD SECURITY

Synonym: Food supply insurance. (additional references)

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Crosswords: FOOD SECURITY

Specialty definitions using "FOOD SECURITY": Conservation compliance, Conservation Reserve Program, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research ♦ Dairy Export Incentive Program, Dairy Termination Program ♦ Findley payments, Food insecurity, Food Security Act of 1985, Food Security Commodity Reserve, Food Security Wheat Reserve, Free stocks, FSCR, FSWR ♦ Grain reserve, Green box policies ♦ Hydric soil ♦ Loan deficiency payments ♦ Market Promotion Program, Marketing loan repayment provisions ♦ No net cost ♦ Soil Bank Act, Strategic grain reserve, Swampbuster ♦ Targeted Export Assistance Program ♦ World food security. (references)

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Commercial Usage: FOOD SECURITY

Domain	Title
Books	Harvests Under Fire: Regional Co-Operation for Food Security in Southern Africa (reference) The impact of food aid and food security programmes on the development in recipient countries : including case studies in the Republic of the Gambia, the Republic of Niger, and the United Republic of Tanzania (reference) Food security issues in Southern Africa : selected proceedings of the Conference on Food Security Issues in Southern Africa, Maseru, 12-14 January 1987 (reference) Climate Change and World Food Security (NATO Asi Series. Series I, Global Environmental Change, Vol 37) (reference) Six Billion and Counting: Population Growth and Food Security in the 21st Century (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Situation And Outlook Series - Food Security Assessment (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: FOOD SECURITY

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Natural disasters in countries throughout the region directly impact economies, food security, sanitation, and health each year. From typhoons and tsunamis, earthquakes, to floods and fires, major disasters in 1998 alone claimed 27,000 lives and over $38 billion in economic losses. (references)
Children	Guatemala	According to the National Council on Nutrition and Food Security, 13 percent of the population suffered from low birth weight, and 40 percent of the population lacks access to potable drinking water. (references)
Economic History	Norway	Norwegians define the NTC as, inter alia, food security and environmental protection. (references)
	Niger	The U.S. also is a major partner in policy coordination in such areas as food security and HIV/AIDS. (references)
Political Economy	Guinea	USAID allocated its 2000 budget of 28 million USD, which includes 9 million USD under PL 480 Title II, in the areas of education, health/family planning, natural resource management, food security and improved governance and democracy. (references)
Trade	Philippines	Rice may be imported only by the Philippine Government through the National Food Authority, formerly an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture, now seated in the President's Office for Food Security. (references)
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Speeches: FOOD SECURITY

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	We must continue to support those activities, bilateral and multilateral, which aim at improving food production especially in developing countries and assuring global food security.
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Expression: FOOD SECURITY

Expression using "FOOD SECURITY": food security system. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FOOD SECURITY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
food security	25
bioterrorism course food security	7
coalition community food security	3
act community food security	3
act food security	2
consultant food security	2
bioterrorism food security	2
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Modern Translation: FOOD SECURITY

Language		Translations for "FOOD SECURITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		Voedselzekerheid en Voedingsverbeteringsprogramma (Food Security and Nutritional Improvement Programme). (various references)

French		Programme d'assistance pour la sécurité alimentaire (Food Security Assistance Scheme), PASA (Food Security Assistance Scheme). (various references)

Pig Latin		oodfay ecuritysay

Spanish		Sistema Andino de Seguridad Alimentaria (Andean System for Food Security, ASFS), SASA (Andean System for Food Security, ASFS), Plan de Asistencia para la Seguridad Alimentaria (Food Security Assistance Scheme, FSAS), PASA (come in, is happening, pass, raisin). (various references)
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Anagrams: FOOD SECURITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-i-o-o-r-s-t-u-y"
	-3 letters: coeditors, courtside, ferocious, fruticose, outscored.
	-4 letters: citreous, coeditor, cordites, corodies, courtesy, crudites, curdiest, curtsied, decorous, eductors, ferocity, fructose, outcried, outcries, outdoers, outfired, outfires, outrides, outscore, outsider, recodify, security.
	-5 letters: certify, cestoid, citrous, citrusy, coedits, cooters, cooties, cordite, coursed, courted, couters, coyotes, credits, crudest, crudity, cruised, crusted, curites, curtesy, curtsey, custody, cystoid, defocus, defrost.
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