RUSTOMJIE

INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL , JALGAON

Topic :- Food Security

Name :- Himanshu Ravindra Patil
Class :- 9th Seychelles
Roll no. :- 76
 FOOD SECURITY
• Food Security exists when all people, at all
times, have physical and economic access to
sufficient safe and nutritious food that
meets their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and healthy life.
DIMENSIONS OF
FOOD SECURITY
AVAILABILITY
• Food availability addresses the “supply side” of
food security and is determined by the level of food
production, stock levels and net trade.

• The first World Food Conference (1974) focused on

the problem of global production, trade and stocks.
UTILIZATION
• Utilization is commonly understood as the way
the body makes the most of various nutrients in
the food. This food security dimension is
determined primarily by people’s health status.

• A third dimension – food utilization – has become

increasingly prominent in food security
discussions since the 1990s.
ACCESS
• Access is just one of several means that people
have to acquire the food that they need.

• From the early 1980’s, the importance of food

access was increasingly recognized as a key
determinant of food security.
 For food security objectives to be realized, all four
dimensions must be fulfilled simultaneously.

• For example, even if people have money (access), if

there’s no food available in the market (availability),
people are at risk of food insecurity.
• Furthermore, food security is also about quality, and
that your body must be healthy to enable the nutrients
to be absorbed (utilization).
• These 3 dimensions should be stable over time and
not be affected negatively by natural, social,
economic or political factors.
NEED :
Food security is required for
 Poor sections of the society

 To handle the situation of starvation and

natural disasters like earthquakes, famines,
floods, tsunami etc.
 Widespread crop failure due to drought
 FOOD INSECURITY
Food Insecurity refers to inadequate
consumption of food or no access to sufficient
safe and nutritious food that meets their
dietary needs and food preferences for an
active and healthy life.
FOOD INSECURE
 In Rural Areas
• Landless People with little or no land
• Traditional artisans
• Traditional service providers
• Petty self-employed workers
• Destitutes including beggars
 In Urban Areas
• The families whose working members are
employed in ill-paid occupations
• The families whose working members are
employed in casual markets

 Social Composition
• Scheduled Castes (SCs)
• Scheduled Tribes (STs)
• OBCs (lower classes among them)
• Women
 Economically Backward Classes
• Tribal and remote areas in Bihar,
Jharkhand, West Bengal, Maharashtra,
Chhattisgarh, some parts of Madhya
Pradesh, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh
(eastern and south-eastern parts)
• Regions more prone to natural disasters
 HUNGER
ANOTHER ASPECT OF FOOD
INSECURITY
Hunger is another aspect of indicating food
insecurity. It is not just an expression of
poverty. It brings about poverty. It is also a
feeling of discomfort or weakness due to
lack of food.
 DIMENSIONS OF
HUNGER
CHRONIC SEASONAL

It is a consequence of It is related to cycles of

inadequate diet in food growing and
terms of quality or harvesting.
quantity.
Due to agricultural
Inadequate diet for activities rural and urban
long time. areas –casual labours.
Current Status
Nearly 800 million people across the world go
to bed hungry every night.
To meet the needs of a world population
expected to reach 9 billion by 2050,
agricultural production will be needed to
increase by at least 60%.
India’s poor population amounts to more than
300 million people, with almost 30% of India’s
rural population living in poverty.
FOOD SECURITY SYSTEM
 The National Food Security Act,
2013
This Act provides for food and nutritional security life
at affordable prices and enables people to live a life with
dignity. Under this act, 75% of the rural population and
50% of the urban population have been categorised as
eligible households for food security.
Production of Foodgrains in India (Million Tonnes)