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Human Security & Food Security

Year of publication 2016

Pages 10p.

Author FAO Strategic Programme on Resilience and the UN Human Security Unit

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

ISBN No ISBN

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Human Security is “the right of all people to live in freedom and dignity, free from poverty and despair”, that “all individuals, in particular vulnerable people, are entitled to freedom from fear and freedom from want, with an equal opportunity to enjoy all their rights and fully develop their human potential”. Human security aims at ensuring the survival, livelihood and dignity of people in response to current and emerging threats – threats that are widespread and cross cutting. Such threats a re not limited to those living in absolute poverty or conflict. “Improved knowledge and understanding of the possible interplays between food security and human security will help shape more effective interventions and contribute to more lasting results.” FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva (UN Peacebuilding Commission, January 2015)

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