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The Food Security Act of 1985 was passed by the United States Congress on December 18, 1985, and signed by the President Ronald Reagan on December 23, 1985. [1] This was the first farm bill with a specific title devoted to conservation programs and policies. [2]
Women selling produce at a market in Lilongwe, Malawi. Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.The availability of food for people of any class and state, gender or religion is another element of food security.
The Global Food Security Act of 2016 (Pub. L. 114–195 (text)), is a law introduced on March 24, 2015, in the 114th Congress by Representative Christopher Henry "Chris" Smith (New Jersey-R) and on May 7, 2015, by Senator Robert Patrick "Bob" Casey Jr. (Pennsylvania-D), and signed by President Barack Obama on July 20, 2016.
The Global Food Security Act of 2009, also known as the Lugar-Casey Food Security Bill, [1] is a bill introduced February 5, 2009 in the 111th Congress by Richard Lugar (Indiana-R) and sponsored by Robert Casey (Pennsylvania-D), Mark Begich (Alaska-D), Roland Burris (Illinois-D), Susan Collins (Maine-R), Richard Durbin (Illinois-D), Thomas Harkin (Iowa-D), John Kerry (Massachusetts-D), and ...
In 2002, the International Food Security Treaty Association was established as a sister organization to the International Food Security Treaty Campaign, and in 2010, both organizations received non-profit status designations from the United States Internal Revenue Service as 501c(3) and 501c(4) respectively. [7] [8]
2002: Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act. 2002: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act. 2003: Animal Drug User Fee Act 2004: Passage of the Food Allergy Labeling and Consumer Protection Act 2005: Sanitary Food Transportation Act. 2011: Food Safety Modernization Act. 2016: Agriculture Marketing Act
"There are three traditional routes to national food security: 1) domestic production, which contributes to self-sufficiency; 2) commercial food imports; and 3) international food aid". [57] Therefore, we need to make it clear that there is a distinction "between self-sufficiency and food security, in that the former is only one possible route ...
The National Food Security Act 2013, also known as Right to Food Act, is an Indian Act of Parliament which aims to provide subsidized food grains to approximately two thirds of the country's 1.4 billion people. [1] It was signed into law on 12 September 2013, retroactive to 5 July 2013. [2] [3]