Food and nutrition security is vital for ensuring the well-being of populations, depending on the availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability of food. Its pillars encompass food availability, economic accessibility, food utilization, and stability to prevent food crises.

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That is, nutrition security means having consistent access, availability, and affordability of foods and beverages that promote well-being and prevent disease, particularly among racial/ethnic minority populations, lower incomes populations, and rural and remote populations. Food security occurs when all people, all of the time, have access to sufficient, safe, affordable, and nutritious food for a healthy diet. Demand for food is increasing, driven by a range of population and demographic changes: population growth, changes in population structure, consumption growth, and urbanization. Food security focuses on quantity of food which is important but limited in scope. It is essential to talk about nutrition security now as preventable diet-related diseases are on the rise. Diabetes and obesity rates continue to rise, especially among children. Overall, National Food Security is crucial for National Security in India as it provides its people stability, growth, and assurance of food resources. National Food Security is also essential for India's economic growth since its population depends on agriculture production and distribution for their livelihoods. Food security can exist even when one of its pillars, availability, affordability, and accessibility, is absent. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food. The four pillars of food security are: food availability, access to food, utilization and stability. The nutritional dimension is integral to the concept of food security. Food insecurity creates enormous strain on worker productivity, healthcare spending, and military readiness and disproportionately impacts racial/ethnic minority populations, lower income populations, and rural and remote populations.Food security is when a person is able to obtain a sufficient amount of healthy food on a day-to-day basis. People who do not consume enough food each day suffer from food insecurity, which is when a person is unable to obtain a sufficient amount of healthy food on a day-to-day basis. The concept of food security has evolved to recognize the centrality of agency and sustainability, along with the four other dimensions of availability, access, utilization, and stability. These six dimensions of food security are reinforced in conceptual and legal understandings of the right to food.