ABSTRACT
Food is one of the basic needs of life. Throughout history, and ever since the time that man has used agriculture to grow plants and domesticate and raise animals for consumption, man has been trying to secure the availability of food and improve its quality by making it safer and healthier. The World Food Summit of 1996 (FAO 1996) dened food security as existing “when all people at all times have access to sufcient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.” Food security is used as an indicator of food sufciency to everybody. Food security at different levels, that is, global, regional, national, and household, needs to be achieved and sustained. Global food security requires (1) sufcient and sustainable food availability, (2) economic and physical access to food by all, and (3) an adequate nutritional value of the diets that people consume. One of the main goals of governments around the world is to make available reliable sources of safe and sustainable food. Consumers’ interest and welfare need to be a high priority of governments. There also needs to be a culture of openness on science, food, and farming.
