diversity, climate change, nutritional economics, population development, food supply, and access to fo Food security has been defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) as; "Food security exists when all people, at all mes, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Household food security is the application of this concept to the family level, with individuals «within households as the focus of concem’ (FAO 2003). The FAO estimated that a total of 925 million people were undernourished in 2010 (Fig 2), less than during the food and economic crisis of 2008-2009, but stil unacceptably high (FAO, 2010). Figure 2 is based on the latest data available to FAO, dotted lines, indicate estimates for 2009 and 2010 by FAO, and the United States Department of Agriculture (FAO 2010). Most of the undernourished people in the world live in developing countries, 2/3 of them in just seven countries (Bangladesh, China, the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia and Pakistan) and over 40 percent live in China and India alone, Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest proportion of undernourished