Biology GCSE
Food security
What Food security means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR.
Definitions of Food security
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Reference: AQA
Having reliable access to enough safe, nutritious food, which is lowered when less food is produced and food becomes less affordable.
Having constant physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for all individuals.
Reliable access to sufficient food, which is reduced when environmental change lowers food production.
Having reliable access to enough safe, nutritious food.
Having enough food to feed a population.
Topics that use Food security
- Factors affecting food security (AQA GCSE)
- Feeding the human race (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- population growth
- agricultural biotechnology
- agricultural economics
- antibiotic resistance markers
- artificial selection
- biofortification and ethics
- crop yield optimisation
- Environmental change
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