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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Towards Africa's human security beginning from food security: successful and unsuccessful stories |
Author: | Sarč, Sami |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Africa: rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione (ISSN 0001-9747) |
Volume: | 65 |
Issue: | 1-4 |
Pages: | 104-144 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | human security food security FAO conferences 2009 |
Abstract: | This article examines the historical relationship between the concepts of human security and food security as defined by the United Nations and the FAO. Human security implies the maintenance of peace through the development of good living conditions for all people. It can be seen as a new version of the 'positive peace' outlined by the UN after World War II in 1945. The concept of food security was born in the FAO Council in June 1973, when a grave food crisis erupted. It entails the possibility for everyone to have access to the food necessary for an active and healthy life. The article focuses on African stories about human security and food security as presented at the FAO World Food Summit on Food Security in November 2009. Notes, ref., sum. in French and Italian. [ASC Leiden abstract] |