The Food Security and Nutrition Guide provides a platform for available, UN and non-UN resources on Food Security, Nutrition and related topics.
Launch of the 2022 Global Report on Food Crises - Hybrid Press Conference.
Briefing by Arif Husain, World Food Programme’s Chief Economist, and Rein Paulsen, the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Director of Emergencies.
The 1974 World Food Summit defined food security as:
... availability at all times of adequate world food supplies of basic foodstuffs to sustain a steady expansion of food consumption and to offset fluctuations in production and prices. (Report of the World Food Conference, Rome 5-16 November 1974. New York)
In chapter 2 of the FAO publication, Trade Reforms and Food Security: conceptualizing the linkages, the definition of the term Food Security is presented as a flexible concept which has evolved over time.
The Committee on World Food Security in document CFS 2012/39/4 has provided further official definition to Food Security and related terms.
For more information on how the definition has evolved, see the FAO publication: Trade Reforms and Food Security: Conceptualizing the Linkages- Chapter 2:2
The Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard, (FLW) provide the first-ever set of global definitions and reporting requirements to quantify and report on food loss and waste.