3^rdInternational Conference On Agricultural Engineering and Food Security

Food Security: The Rising Crisis and Its Management

Food security is a condition in which all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Economic growth is only sustainable if all countries have food security. Without country-owned and country-driven food security strategies, there will be obstacles and additional costs to global, regional and country-level economic growth. According to the definition there are four dimensions of food security , Physical availability of food, Economic and physical access to food, Food utilization, Stability of the other three dimensions over time. Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty are such topics which are related to global food security.