Food security

• Food security is the practices of managing the essential food materials to global, regional or national level.
• For people to be food secure that is to have access at all times to the food required for a healthy and productive life.
• There must be both availability of food and access to food.
• Access to food by households (and individuals) is conditioned by poverty. The poor usually lack adequate means to secure access to food.

Major key factors that influence future food production and consumption

Global and regional food production and consumption during the next 10-20 years will be influenced by a large number of factors. Changes in the following four sets of factors are likely to be particularly important:

1. Economic growth and economic policies
2. Population growth and urbanization
3. Rural infrastructure, agricultural production technology, and access to modern inputs.
4. Natural resource management and environmental considerations.