Food security and food sovereignty: two expressions that we hear all the time, very similar but referring to two different concepts.
Here are the FAO definitions:
“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have the physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”.
“Food sovereignty is the right of each country to maintain and develop its own capacity to produce its own food, an essential factor in food security at national and community level, while respecting cultural and agricultural diversity”.