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 (A)</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 (A)</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 (A)</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 (B)</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 (C)</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 (B)</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' (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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