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Food Security: Conceptual History and Pillars

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Food safety; Food science; Food sensitivity

Definition

Food security is the ideal situation when all people have physical, social, and economic access to enough, safe, and nutritious food and have the capacity to meet their food needs and preferences aiming to promote a healthy life (FAO 1983). There are four main dimensions of the concept: (1) availability; that is, the physical existence and how food is supplied from production and/or cultivation to marketing; (2) access, the resources to obtain sufficient quality and quantity for a nutritious diet and still consider economic, cultural, and social aspects that may interfere with the purchase of goods; (3) consumption, which is reflected in health and nutrition conditions; and (4) stability, related to how food supply remains constant, including factors such as economic resources, income, and the food itself (FAO et al. 2019).

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Acknowledgments

This study was conducted by the Centre for Sustainable Development (Greens), from the University of Southern Santa Catarina (Unisul), in the context of the project BRIDGE – Building Resilience in a Dynamic Global Economy: Complexity across scales in the Brazilian Food-Water-Energy Nexus; funded by the Newton Fund, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina (FAPESC), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível superior (CAPES), National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the Research Councils United Kingdom (RCUK).

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    Manoela de Oliveira Veras, Emanuelle Parenti & Samara da Silva Neiva

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

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de Oliveira Veras, M., Parenti, E., Neiva, S.d.S. (2021). Food Security: Conceptual History and Pillars. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69626-3_21-1

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