Outcome · Outcome

Food security

Outcome construct denoting the state in which all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life, treated neutrally as the result whose level may be maintained or eroded under climate stress.

Definition source: FAO (food security, World Food Summit 1996)

Synonyms

food and nutrition security, food insecurity, food insecure

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Outcome is measured against a climate hazard (e.g. yield under drought), OR is produced by a qualifying intervention, OR an adaptation-specific principle or cross-cutting concept applies to it; NOT adaptation when it is a plain level or quantity result not framed against a climate stressor.

Provenance

Domain expert; Lexicon consensus

Identifier

OTC_006 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/OTC_006
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/OTC_006)