Food safety as an integral part of Food Security: Addressing the governance issues and the critical role of climate change

This article discusses about the role of food safety and its interconnectedness with Food security. It also highlights the role of climate change and its impact on nutritional security which is one of the components of the broader human security. It also addresses the burning issue of this decade namely climate change which has a great impact on human lives especially on food production and health status are addressed from the research studies globally. The challenge of food security is to assure that all people have access to enough food to lead productive lives, but a large part of food security is assuring the food is safe from a chemical, physical or biological aspect on which the WHO has prioritized for this year theme. There is an urgent need for strengthening the existing food policies to incorporate the importance of food safety which is ignored most of the times, improving the food governance so that gender issues are addressed, public private partnerships are strengthened, encouraging the farming occupation & community organizations for food production and finally improving access to the end users.