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Health security is the most important in human beings, if our health is not secured than societies are not secured. The universal declaration of human right states that everyone has to the right to life, liberty and security of persons. It was first put forward by the 1994 united national development programme (UNDP) Annual Human Development Report. The international Red Cross was founded in 1960s following the universal declaration of human right to develop human security among the human society. Health security means having low exposure to disease and high and proper access to health services, poor people are vulnerable to disease as they live in degraded areas and have poor, access to services or cannot afford medical care. For example, diarrhea because of poor water and sanitation services is a major cause of death among children; malaria and tuberculosis are other diseases that are in last trend in our society. The threat of AIDS has gone up tremendously and is affecting large sections of the population. For health security, preventing strategies are very important and are closely related to provision of basic services of water supply, sanitation and education. Of course, curative services and access to them as well as their utilization are crucial too. Health is an area where public action acquires tremendous significance. Public action is not limited to action by the state and includes action by non-government organizations and voluntary organizations. These organizations, other than government departments are quite active in the health field in developing nation developing countries. Their efforts have been remarkable in combating and building awareness about deadly disease like AIDS and in the on going pulse polio programme in India to provide oral drops to children below five year of age to prevent polio. We cannot imagine the human development and human security except the development of medical sciences and food security of human society. Right to life and right to liberty is the most essential for human security. Human security strengthened and emphasizes the citizen. But achievement of a human security required a global political culture having there values of human dignity and political rights. It is also linkage with environment and not out society. Environmental security is one of the most essential components of human security. Democracy and good governance are also most important for promoting human security. Civil wars, violence are the most disturbance for promoting human development and security. Strong and powerful governance structures complementing political economic and legal initiatives can enhance human security. However human security is the most essential for developing a building a good civil society. Food security is one of the most important components for human security. In this regard world food conference of 1974 set arrangements for food security for the human society. In 1996 world food summit adopted a complex food security for individual, household, national, global and regional level achievement. Food security means taking food for healthy life and secured food for every human being of the world people. Healthy food for healthy life and healthy human being is very important for our human societies. Social security is also very important for human security. In this regard education is the essential human capital for development of human security.

Food security means consume of authentic and non harmful food. But food security is a flexible concept. Many definitions of this concept have been attempted. The continuing evolution of the concept of food security has reflected the wider recognition that the technical and policy issues are highly complex. A careful definition was that negotiated in the process of international consultant leading to the world food summit (WFS) in November 1996. Food security as a concept originated in the mid -1970s, in the discussion on international food problems when the world faced a global food crisis. The initial focus of attention was primarily on problems on food supply, ensuring the availability and the price stability of basic food items at the national and international level. A process of international negotiation followed, which led to the world food conference of 1974 and a set of arrangements for promoting food security. The issue of famine, hunger andf food crisis was also being extensively examined, following the events of the mid 1970s. The outcome was a definition of food security. The potential vulnerability of affected people is a critical aspect was explicitly recognized. Another factor which led to the modification of the views about food security was the emerging evidence that the technical success of the green revolution did not automatically lead to rapid and dramatic reductions in poverty and malnutrition. These problems were recognized as the result of lack of effect demand by the poor. Wood security was defined in the 1970 world food summit as availability at all times of adequate world food supplies of basic foodstuffs to sustain a steady expansion of food consumption and to offset fluctuations in production and prices. The World Bank report ‘‘poverty and hunger’’ (1986) focused on the time dimensions of food insecurity. This concept of food security is further elaborated in terms of access of all people at all times to enough food for an active healthy life. In the 1996 world food summit adopted a still more complex definition, food security at the individual, household, national and global levels, when all people, at the times. Have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and health life. Essentially, food security can be described as phenomenon relating to individuals. It is the nut rational status of the individual household member that is the ultimate focus, and the risk of that adequate status not being achieved or becoming undermined. The latter risk described the vulnerability of individuals in this context. As the definitions reviewed above imply, vulnerability may occur both as a chronic and transitory phenomenon. Food security is a multi-dimensional phenomenon, national and international efforts are needed to meet and ensure food security, especially in the era of globalization and liberalization. Attention has to be given to long run food security and focus should not be limited to transitory food insecurity. We have to overcome the food security problems and we need to search the solution of food security.