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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.