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sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an
active and healthy life.” – FAO, 1996
The core concept of food security carries the access to healthy food and optimal nutrition for
all.
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Household food security is the application of this concept to the family level, with individuals
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Characteristics of being Food Secured:

Concept of food security also includes the presence of following characteristics:

Enough food: If there is adequate food as per one’s need and requirements.
Good food: It should be with desirable taste, texture and other attributes.
Healthy food: It should be nutritious and sustaining with proper vitamins, minerals, fibre,
energy, and all the other things that our bodies need.
Culturally appropriate food: Having access to culturally appropriate food means that people
have food that they are familiar and comfortable with including availability of familiar foods &
varieties.

Pillars of Food security:

Basically, there are four pillars/components of food Security. They are:

1. Food availability:

Having sufficient quantity of appropriate food available.

It includes: domestic production, import capacity, food stocks, food aid.

2. Accessibility:

Physical and economic access to food

Purchasing power, income of population, transport and market infrastructure

3. Utilization:

It includes adequate dietary intake and ability to use nutrients in the body.
Food safety, hygiene and manufacturing practices applied in primary agricultural production,
harvesting and storage; food processing; transportation, retail, households, diet quality and
diversity: meeting needs in terms of energy, macro- and micronutrients.
 4. Stability:

Stability of supply and access

Weather variability, price fluctuations, political factors, economic factors

Dimensions of food security and its determinants:

Availability Accessibility Utilization Stability

· Domestic · Income, purchasing · Food safety and · Weather
production power, own production quality variability,
seasonality
· Import capacity · Transport and market · Clean water
infrastructure · Price fluctuations
· Food stocks · Health and sanitation
· Food distribution · Political factors
· Food aid · Care, feeding and
health seeking · Economic factors
practices

Source: FAO

Factors affecting Food Security:

The food security can be mainly influenced by:

Low per capita income

Low and unequal distribution of income
Poor and highly unstable growth performance especially in agriculture
Unemployment and underemployment
Low and declining farm size
Inequalities in land distribution
Low land utilization
Social discrimination
Population growth
Access to market
Food taboos: certain restrictions in the food consumption due to cultural and social norms.
Poverty
Climate induced insecurity: climate change, deforestation, landslide, declining soil fertility
Political instability
Poor, marginalized, ethnic group & lower caste groups
High maternal and infant mortalities

Urbanization Affecting Food Security?

Urbanization is a process whereby populations move from rural to urban area, enabling cities and
towns to grow. It can also be termed as the progressive increase of the number of people living in
towns and cities.

Urbanization is influencing the dimensions of the food security as:

1. Availability:

There is an effect on the food supply which may run insufficient due to competition between
areas used for agricultural production and areas used for expanding urban settlements.
The food demand may vary between the rural and urban food with decrement in the
availability of staple foods.

2. Accessibility:

The high prices may put up a restriction into consumption of the desired food needs.
There is need to rely partly upon commercial food value earners like street vendors, small
merchants, etc who have increased number.

3. Utilization:

Lack of regulations in the urban setting for street stands and commercial workers impact upon
low food security.
The urban food consumption has a transition of malnutrition from under nutrition to over
nutrition, giving rise to obesity, hypertensions, etc.

4. Stability:

The fluctuating prices of certain foods due to the changes in demand of urban populations
create a barrier to people in food consumption.
 The political conflicts may arise due to clash of thoughts among huge population which may
be a cause to overlook food security.
The risk of increasing food insecurity I higher in slums and informal settlements where, in
many cases, socio-economic development is already lower than in rural areas

Food Security Affecting Urbanization?

The food security is also having an influence in urbanization as:

Food insecurity among the commercial workers has led to overcrowding of this population
group.
Urban poverty (increment of slum areas in urban setting) has increased due to lack of access
to food.
The management of the urban areas is decreasing due to lack of human resource that are
food secured.
Gap between the rich and poor is in increasing trend due to issues of food security.
The constant existence of political conflicts arises due to demand of food security among
minority population.
Increased food insecurity has led to criminal activities including theft, robbery, etc. which are
more prevalent in the urban areas
Lack of food has created a barrier among the civil society and government causing lack of co-
ordination for urban management.

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Hello and greetings everyone! I am Kusum Wagle, MPH, WHO-TDR Scholar, BRAC
James P. Grant School of Public Health, Bangladesh. I have gained profound
experiences in public health sector under different thematic areas of health,
nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, maternal and newborn health, research
etc., targeting diverse audience of different age groups. I have performed diverse roles ranging from
lecturer in the public health department of colleges, nutrition coordinator, research coordinator and
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