What does food security mean?

All people, at all times, having access to enough safe and nutritious food for a healthy life

Which is one of the four dimensions of food security?

Access, meaning people can afford and physically reach food

By importing food reliably so its people have steady access, as Singapore does

Climate, including temperature and rainfall

Technology such as machinery, fertilisers and high-yield crops

Drought that reduces rainfall and causes crops to fail

Conflict that disrupts farming and blocks the movement of food

Hunger, malnutrition and rising food prices, hitting the poorest hardest

The use of high-yield crop varieties together with irrigation and fertilisers to raise food production

High cost and dependence on chemicals, water or technology can favour richer farmers and damage soils and ecosystems

Producing enough food for a growing population without exhausting the land, water and ecosystems farming depends on

Reducing food waste, using sustainable farming methods, and improving access and trade

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

What does food security mean?
Which is one of the four dimensions of food security?
How can a country be food secure without being self-sufficient?
Which is a physical factor affecting food supply?
Which is a human factor affecting food supply?
Which is a physical cause of food shortages?
Which is a human cause of food shortages?
Which is an effect of food shortages on people?
What was the Green Revolution?
What is a drawback of intensive strategies such as the Green Revolution or biotechnology?
What does sustainable food security aim to balance?
Which is an example of a strategy for sustainable food security?