food security [4.7] [ access to food | food availability | food insecurity | food utilisation | stability of food supply ]

Permanent Study Group on Food Security | Permanent Study Group on Sustainable Food Systems

Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security | CTI-CFF [Abbr.]

Food Security Assistance Scheme | FSAS [Abbr.]

food safety

food security | security of food supply

Plan of Action on World Food Security

food safety programs manager

Ordinance of 30 October 1985 on the Fees Charged by the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office [ FeeO-FSVO ]

food safety [ food product safety | food quality safety | safety of food | food hygiene(UNBIS) ]

Observes that agricultural investment policies mostly focus on large-scale land acquisitions and on export-oriented agriculture that is usually unrelated to local economies; notes that the development of extensive irrigation in the targeted geographical investment areas of NAFSN may reduce water availability for other users, such as small-scale farmers or pastoralists; stresses that under those circumstances the ability of mega-PPPs to contribute to poverty reduction and food security must be critically assessed and improved; emphasises that agricultural investment policies should be linked to and should support the development of the ...[+++] local economy, including smallholders and family farming; recalls that the FAO Tenure Guidelines recommend secure access to land in order to allow families to produce food for household consumption and to increase household income; stresses the need to base large-scale land-based investment in Africa on these guidelines, ensuring smallholders’ and local communities’ access to land, promoting local SME investment. and ensuring that PPPs contribute to food security and to reducing poverty and inequality.

Is of the view that the loss of genetic diversity over the past century threatens food/feed security and undermines EU policies on sustainable agriculture, biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation strategies; believes that monoculture and a lack of crop rotation is a major factor in this loss; considers all plant varieties and animal species, including landraces, their wild and semi-wild relatives, and old and pioneer varieties to be essential for maintaining genetic diversity, breeding programmes and the production of sufficient, nutritious and healthy food.

For the most part, the problems which had to be tackled by research scientists involved a single variable: the quantitative aspect of food security .

Food security at a personal level is having access, at all times and in a climate of respect, to food in sufficient quantity and appropriate quality, respecting cultural values and thereby allowing the enjoyment of all fundamental rights.