1996 AD
Multidimensional definition of food security
Food & agriculture · Technology · Agricultura
The 1996 World Food Summit consolidated a definition that includes physical and economic access, sufficiency, safety, nutrition, and continuity over time. The milestone shifted attention beyond supply and harvests toward food-system functioning and household and individual access; it is not itself a hunger measurement or a guarantee of reduction.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
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- 2026-09-23
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