Food Security Overview Quiz
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What are the dimensions of food security according to the text?

  • Food imports and previous years stock
  • Production and distribution of food crops
  • Government vigilance and action
  • Availability, accessibility, and affordability of food (correct)
  • Which factor is NOT considered as a dimension of food security in the text?

  • Government vigilance and action (correct)
  • Food production within the country
  • Affordability of food
  • Accessibility of food to every person
  • What does affordability of food imply according to the text?

  • Access to food for every person
  • Food imports and previous years stock
  • Food production within the country
  • Having enough money to buy sufficient, safe, and nutritious food (correct)
  • Which of the following is essential for ensuring food security in a country?

    <p>All of the options mentioned</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What makes poor households more vulnerable to food insecurity according to the text?

    <p>Problem of production or distribution of food crops</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Amartya Sen emphasize in his new dimension to food security?

    <p>The combination of food production and market exchange</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the 1995 World Food Summit declaration, when does food security exist?

    <p>When there is physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is essential to improve access to food according to the World Food Summit declaration?

    <p>Poverty eradication</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does a natural calamity like drought affect food security?

    <p>It decreases the total production of foodgrains, creating a shortage of food</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the original understanding of food security in the 1970s according to the text?

    <p>'Availability at all times of adequate supply of basic foodstuffs'</p> Signup and view all the answers

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