 | United States. General Accounting Office - 1996 - 62 pages
...malnutrition. The US " position paper prepared for the World Food Summit states that food security exists when all people at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. Food security has several important... | |
 | 1997 - 114 pages
...Food Conference, for example, uses one version of these standard definitions: Food security exists when all people at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. Food security has three dimensions:... | |
 | K. L. Gupta - 1999 - 302 pages
...CHAPTER 5 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE AND FOOD SECURITY Alan Matthews Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic...and food preferences for an active and healthy life. In recent decades there has been a significant improvement in food security. Current food availabilities... | |
 | Josephine Martin, Martha Conklin - 1999 - 774 pages
...nutrition needs of the American people. Food security as defined by the World Food Summit (1996) is when all people at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life4 In addition to the child nutrition... | |
 | Colin Hines - 2000 - 308 pages
...development lobby to campaign actively for it. Chapter 18 Localizing Food Security 'Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic...sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary need and food preferences for an active and healthy life.'' GLOBALIZATION AND AGRICULTURE The WTO Agreement... | |
 | Bob Digby - 2001 - 264 pages
...that famine is caused by overpopulation. Is this true? Investigating famine in the twentieth century 'Food security, at the individual, household, national,...food preferences for an active and healthy life.' (World Food Summit, 1996) Hunger may be divided into two types: • acute hunger: short-term but intensive... | |
 | Michael Cardwell, Margaret R. Grossman, C. P. Rodgers - 2003 - 360 pages
...Food security is also considered an NTC, one of two named in the Preamble to the URAA. Food security is achieved 'when all people, at all times, have physical...and food preferences for an active and healthy life' (OECD, 2001, p. 47). Countries often cite two objectives of food security as an output of agriculture.... | |
 | 2003 - 360 pages
...not just those with purchasing power. The 1996 World Food Summit concluded that 'food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic...and food preferences for an active and healthy life' (FAO, 1996, article 1). Amartya Sen's entitlements approach provides a useful framework for exploring... | |
 | M. Ramon Llamas, E. Custodio - 2002 - 498 pages
...with this, we follow the definition in the FAO database of terminology that: "Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic...food preferences for an active and healthy life". This definition does not focus on food production and physical availability alone but also includes... | |
 | Wolfgang Hein - 2003 - 374 pages
...(Sen, 1981). The 1996 World Food Summit summarized current views when stated that "food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic...food preferences for an active and healthy life". Yet, availability and access are only preconditions for adequate utilization of food - necessary but... | |
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Summit included several of those components when it asserted that "food security exists 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... 
