What is Food Security?
Food security is the continuous access for all people to safe and nutritious food regardless of economic or social status
The concept of food security can be looked at through the principles of the Five A’s:
- Availability: Sufficient food for all people at all times.
- Accessibility: Physical and economic access to food for all at all times.
- Adequacy: Access to food that is nutritious and safe, and produced in environmentally sustainable ways.
- Acceptability: Access to culturally acceptable food, which is produced and obtained in ways that do not compromise people’s dignity, self-respect or human rights.
- Agency: The policies and processes that enable the achievement of food security.
ref: https://canadianfeedthechildren.ca/the-feed/food-security-guide/