Food security at the individual or household level means access to enough nutritious food to sustain an active and healthy life. The Community Food Securition Coalition defines community food security as a "condition in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance and social justice," which covers six basic principles:
- Low Income Food Needs - Focusing on meeting the food needs of low income communities, reducing hunger and improving individual health.
- Broad Goals - Addressing a broad issues, such as increasing poverty and hunger, disappearing family farms, urban food deserts, rural communities, suburban sprawl, and ag- and food-related air and water pollution.
- Community focus - Building up a community's food resources to meet its own needs, through farmers' markets, gardens, community-based food processing ventures and urban farms, for example.
- Self-reliance/empowerment - Building individuals' abilities to provide for their food needs.
- Local agriculture - Building stronger ties between farmers and consumers.
- Systems-oriented - Crossing many boundaries and incorporating collaborations with multiple agencies.
Blogs that address food security include World Watch Institute and U.S. Food Policy.
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