0 the fact that a place is able to produce or obtain enough food to feed its population:
Climate change has potentially devastating implications for global food security.
The report showed about 11 percent of Iowa households had low food security.
1 a situation in which enough food is produced and available for everyone in a group, country, etc. to have enough to eat:
Their breakthrough scientific achievements have significantly increased food security for millions of people from Asia to Africa.
Because most Americans take food security for granted, an attack on crops could catch the nation unprepared.
Taking up farmland for industry represents a food security threat in a nation with 16 percent of the world's population but only 2 percent of its land.
government programmes aiming to ensure food security for the poor and children
For readers whose main knowledge is of plant-soil interactions, the book provides an insight into issues related to food security, economics and policy.
There are good examples of major achievements in crop improvement worldwide and much of this is presented in the context of global food security concerns.
Future food security depends, therefore, upon developing improved dryland cropping systems.
In other words, food security is still an issue today.
