Food security
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Food security
- Here are entered works on physical and economic access to adequate food. Economic works on the availability of food are entered under [Food supply.]
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009007706
- info:lc/authorities/sh2009007706
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2009007706#concept
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Variants
- Food insecurity
- Insecurity, Food
- Security, Food
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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Blakeney, M. Intellectual property rights and food security, c2009: p. 2 (Food security as defined by the 1996 World Food Summit is a situation in which all people at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet the dietary needs and food preferences for an active and health life; Scoones traces the definition from its 1974 World Food Conference connotation of access to the availability of food through the World Bank's 1986 definition of food security in the sense of access to sustain a healthy life. Indicators of food security can be defined at different levels--for the world as a whole, for individual countries or for households; The opposite of food security is food insecurity)
- found: UNBIS thes. (Food security)
- found: Wikipedia, Aug. 18, 2009 (Food security refers to the availability of food and one's access to it)
General Notes
- Here are entered works on physical and economic access to adequate food. Economic works on the availability of food are entered under [Food supply.]
Example Notes
- Note under [Food supply]
Change Notes
- 2009-08-19: new
- 2010-01-19: revised
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