Food Security − Element of Romania’s Common Agricultural Policy in the European Context

The starting point of the research was the approach of a series of theoretical aspects related to the concept of food security, as developed over the last decades by specialized international bodies, especially FAO. Currently, food security has become a complex concept, the assessment of which takes into account both the availability of food, including the stability of the agricultural supply, and the (economic) access to food, which is conditioned by the purchasing power of different categories of the population. The concept of food security has gradually developed over the last decades, including more and more aspects that address the problems of human nutrition from a complex, quantitative and qualitative perspective, with references including to health security, environmental quality, the general socio-economic framework, the risk of armed conflicts. The numerous challenges present in most countries of the world transform the problem from a theoretical one into a practical one, with scientists, governments and other stakeholders seeking to discover the most useful measures to remove risks and provide food security to as many of the Earth’s inhabitants as possible. The article below is very useful, because it defines the term food security, presenting the objectives and priorities of the phenomenon, as well as the factors that positively and negatively influence this area.