Agriculture, Food, and Nutritional Security: An Overview

Priority in developing countries is achieving food and nutritional security (FNS). A flexible global food system, and one of the critical routes to achieving better FNS, requires the reorganization of relevant policies. Among them, policies and strategies related to the creation and adaptation of technologies, innovations, and their associated institutional adjustments are significant factors to counteract the complex and growing challenges of the global food system. During the last decades, food and nutritional security (FNS) has developed greatly in practice. This overview provides some basic information about current understanding on agriculture, food, and nutritional security. It introduces the concepts of food and nutritional security and separately introduces the part of this book. It focuses on the overview of agriculture, food, and nutritional security worldwide, followed by a more detailed analysis along various dimensions of food security, such as food availability, food utilization, and sustainability in food supplies and access to food. This observation emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of food insecurity concerns, which have to be addressed through an effective cross-sectoral approach.