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The condition, in the definition settled at the 1996 World Food Summit, of all people at all times having physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food. The concept reframed hunger from a production problem to an access problem, following Amartya Sen's demonstration that modern famines have happened amid adequate supply; it is the stated goal of the FAO and the measure agricultural policy answers to.

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1974 1
The term entered international usage at the 1974 World Food Conference; the standard four-pillar definition dates to the 1996 World Food Summit.
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Agricultural Economics, Disciplines

Food security, prices and access, is one of agricultural economics' central applied concerns.

Aquaculture, Disciplines

Farmed fish and shellfish are among the fastest-growing sources of protein counted toward global food security.

Amartya Sen's entitlement analysis of this famine reframed hunger from supply to access, the core of modern food security

A deliberate sharpening of food security: control of the food system, not only access to food

The UN's food assistance arm; the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize recognized its work against hunger and starvation as a weapon

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1. Food Security (Wikipedia)
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