page_title: Food security
section_title: Children and food security
hierarchical_section_title: Food security / Children and food security
caption_attribution_description: English: Bengali famine 1943 বাংলা: ১৯৪৩ বাংলা দুর্ভিক্ষ Français&#160;: 1943 famine du Bengale (Bengal) Español: Bengala en 1943 el hambre Esperanto: 1943 Bengalo (Bengal) malsato
context_page_description: Food security is a measure of the availability of food and individuals' ability to access it. Affordability is only one factor. There is evidence of food security being a concern many thousands of years ago, with central authorities in ancient China and ancient Egypt being known to release food from storage in times of famine. At the 1974 World Food Conference the term "food security" was defined with an emphasis on supply; food security is defined as the "availability at all times of adequate, nourishing, diverse, balanced and moderate world food supplies of basic foodstuffs to sustain a steady expansion of food consumption and to offset fluctuations in production and prices". Later definitions added demand and access issues to the definition. The final report of the 1996 World Food Summit states that food security "exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life."
  Household food security exists when all members, at all times, have access to enough food for an active, healthy life.
context_section_description: On April 29, 2008, a UNICEF UK report found that the world's poorest and most vulnerable children are being hit the hardest by climate change. The report, "Our Climate, Our Children, Our Responsibility: The Implications of Climate Change for the World's Children", says that access to clean water and food supplies will become more difficult, particularly in Africa and Asia.
caption: Bengali famine, 1943. The Japanese conquest of Burma cut off India's main supply of rice imports.[139]
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