ABSTRACT
The analysis in Part I has shown that the international debate on food security has changed with the passage of time. It has been influenced by changing development paradigms, and the perception of food insecurity, the analyses of the underlying causes and the resulting policy approaches and objectives have changed accordingly (see also Figure 1 in Part I). While the food security debate of the 1960s and 1970s focused on supply and production aspects, the emphasis shifted in the 1980s to the access that individuals and population groups have to food. The entitlement debate triggered by Sen had a major influence on this change.
