What is food security means:

Food security means availability of food to all people all the time. Food security has following dimensions:

• Availability of food: This means the food production within the country, food imports and previous years’ stock stored in government granaries.
• Accessibility of food: This means food should be within reach of every person.
• Affordability: This means that every individual has enough money to buy sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet one’s dietary needs.

Food security is when people are able to afford and secure sufficient and nutritious food for their family. The three dimensions of food security are

• Availability of food: It means that the country should produce sufficient food for satisfying the needs and requirements of every citizen.

• Accessibility of food: It means that all people have an easy accessibility to food.

• Affordability of food: It implies that every person has enough money to buy sufficient and quality food for the family.