What is food security?

• A. Sufficient packaging
• B. Access to safe food
• C. Availability of location
• D. High price stability

Answer: (B)

Food security is about ensuring people have regular access to enough safe and nutritious food to lead an active, healthy life. It isn’t just that food is present somewhere; it also matters that people can obtain it and that what they eat is safe to consume. The choice that focuses on access to safe food best captures this idea because safety protects health and reliability, so people can use the food without risk of illness while being able to obtain it when needed. Other ideas fall short because they don’t fully address both access and safety: packaging relates to keeping food from spoiling rather than ensuring people can get safe food; location availability is vague and doesn’t guarantee access or safety; price stability helps economic conditions but doesn’t by itself define whether people can access safe food when needed.