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# Food Soil and Pest Management **Food Security:** A concept that evolves with development and greater awareness, becomes crucial. * **1970s:** Food Availability (buffer stocks) * **1980s:** Food Accessibility * **1990s:** Food Utilization * **1996 World Food Summit Definition:** "when all people,...

# Food Soil and Pest Management **Food Security:** A concept that evolves with development and greater awareness, becomes crucial. * **1970s:** Food Availability (buffer stocks) * **1980s:** Food Accessibility * **1990s:** Food Utilization * **1996 World Food Summit Definition:** "when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life." **Food Insecurity:** A situation with limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, or limited/uncertain ability to acquire acceptable food in socially accepted ways. (e.g., USDA) **Evolution (2000s):** Recurring food crises necessitate including stability as a key component of food security. **Food Security:** Involves five key elements: 1. Food availability in the country 2. Accessibility of food to people, physically and financially 3. People are healthy to absorb it 4. Food supply is stable over time **Food Security's Three Pillars:** * Food Availability * Food Accessibility * Food Utilization # **Food Stability** * **Temporal Dimensions of food security:** * **Chronic:** Long-term or persistent inability to meet minimum food requirements * **Transitory/Acute:** Short-term or temporary inability to meet minimum food requirements, showing capacity to recover. # **2007 Food Crisis** * Failed agricultural market regulations * Lack of anti-dumping mechanisms * Export restrictions and panic buying * US Dollar depreciation * Increased farming for biofuels * World oil prices exceeding $100 a barrel * Global population growth * Climate change * Loss of agricultural land to residential and industrial development * Growing consumer demand in China and India # **Lessons Learned** * Growth is essential for poverty alleviation * Growth must be inclusive * Growth must target food and nutrition needs.