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Food Security in a Globalized World for Sustainable Development | Campaign for Sustainability

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  According to the UN Committee on World Food Security, food security means that all people have physical, social, and economic access to adequate, secure, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and balanced life at all times. As a result, the main dimensions of the household food security construct are physical availability of food, economic and physical access to food, and sufficient food utilisation, which is a feature of the body's capacity to absorb and use nutrients, as well as dietary quality and food safety. A changing climate, an increasing global population, rising food prices, and environmental stressors will all have substantial yet unpredictable effects on food security in the coming decades. Adaptation plans and policy responses to global change are urgently needed, including options for dealing with water allocation, land use trends, food trade, postharvest food production, food prices, and food protection.  Food se...