...highlight the study's major findings on food security. The study sets out by defining food security as access by all people at all times to enough food for an active and healthy life. There are said to be two kinds of food insecurity: chronic and transitory. Chronic food insecurity...

...past. The World Bank definition of the term 'food security' as presented in World Bank (1986a). ie 'access by all people at all times to enough food for an active and healthy life' is adopted in this paper. Thus, the level of food insecurity in a society or a population group is...

...World Bank definition of the term -food security- as presented in World Bank (198«a) . ie -access br all people at all times to enough food for an active and healthy life- la adopted in this paper. Thus, the level of food insecurity in a society or a population group is...

...and consumer price controls etc. Food Security & Rural Development o Place food security ("access of all people at all times to enough food for an active and healthy life*) at the center of adjustment programs. Implement production incentives for export crops only in conjunction...

...social policy. (l) The World Bank, for example, defines food security on an international level as "access by all people at all times to enough food for an active healthy life." The concept of food security — of the conditions of access to and availability of...

...ideas and policy objectives. At the most general level food security policies are seen as providing 'access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life' [Reutlinger, 1985]. The definition of food security at this level of generality is not...

...according to body size, activity, and health. Food security: Food security is defined by the World Bank as 'access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Its essential elements are the availability of food and the ability to acquire it. Food...

...integrate contemporary ideas about food policy. A widely accepted definition of food security is ... 'access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life' (World Bank, 1986a: 1). Food insecurity is a lack of access to enough food, and we can...

...social and political issues, the definition given by the World Bank (1986) is widely accepted, namely: "Access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Its essential elements are the availability of food and the ability to acquire it. Food...

...rapid growth in rice production in 1980s (Pingali and Xuan 1992, Hossain 1994). Food security, however, means access by all people at all times to enough food for an active healthy life (Reutlinger 1987). Its essential elements are the availability of food and the ability...