Food Security
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Year: 2006
The widely accepted World Food Summit (1996) definition reinforces the multidimensional nature of food security and includes food access, availability, food use and stability. It has enabled policy responses focused on the promotion and recovery of livelihood options. Initially made popular by academics such as Chambers and Conway (1992), livelihood approaches are now fundamental to international organizations’ development programmes. They are increasingly applied in emergency contexts and include the
concepts of vulnerability, risk coping and risk
management.
Available in:
ftp://ftp.fao.org/es/ESA/policybriefs/pb_02.pdf
Theme: Food security and nutrition
Publication type: Policy brief