CBSE Class 10 Answered

• Food security means the availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all people at all times. Food security depends on the Public Distribution System (PDS) and the availibility of food stocks all the time. Food security is ensured in a country only if:

• Enough food is available for all the persons
• All persons have the capacity to buy food of acceptable quality
• There is no barrier to access to food.

Reasons for food insecurity:

The social composition

• SCs, STs and other OBCs who have either poor land-base or low productivity.
• Because of natural disasters, people migrate to different areas in search of work.

Food insecure people

•  A large proportion of pregnant, nursing mothers and children under the age of 5 years.
• Backward states, tribal and remote areas, regions prone to natural disasters.

The eradication of hunger and reducing the risks of future hunger is required to attain food security. Hunger has chronic and seasonal dimensions. Chronic hunger is a consequence of inadequate food in terms of quantity and quality. Seasonal hunger is related to cycles of growing and harvesting food.