Food security encompasses the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food for an active, healthy life. Нe concept of food security is defined as including both physical and economic access to food that meets people's dietary needs as well as their food preferences. In 2009, the World Summit on Food Security stated that the "four pillars of food security are availability, access, utilization, and stability" wherein food availability is provision of suٹcLent quantities of food of appropriate quality, through domestic production or imports; food access implies access by individuals to adequate resources for acquiring appropriate foods for a nutritious diet; food utilization through adequate diet, clean water, sanitation and health care to reach a state of nutritional well-being where all physiological needs are met; and food stability ensures access to adequate food at all times by individual/household