Food security and food insecurity are commonly used in discussions of global conditions and outlook. Food security exists when all people at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life. Food insecurity exists when people lack access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food, and therefore is not consuming enough for an active and healthy life. This may be due to the unavailability of food, inadequate purchasing power, or inappropriate utilization at the household level. Food insecurity leads to under-nutrition at the micro and macro nutrient level. This arises not only through access to food markets, food transport and safe environments that encourage food security, but soil itself must also be capable of sustainably producing locally sourced food.
Food security become increasingly clear that food security is strongly interlinked with other issues, such as global environmental change and energy markets, and that its policy environment is undergoing transformation and globalization. For those reasons food
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Due to high food prices and the global economic crisis, the number of hungry people increased from 2006 to 2009, but both the number and proportion declined in 2010 with some economic recovery and lower food prices. These events made clear that, in spite of decades of efforts to eradicate hunger and malnutrition, food insecurity is still a significant problem. Within these recent food security debates, the role of governance has been attracting increasing attention. This development stems from the often-heard notion that food security solutions should not only address the technical and environmental dimensions of the issue, but also involve social, economic and political aspects into an