According to the FAO, in 2010, the number of people in the world who suffer from hunger reached 925 million, 13.4% of the global population. And 98% of those who are undernourished live in developing countries, while the Western world suffers from the exact opposite problem – statistics reveal that at least 1 billion people in the world are overweight.

The increase in world population – which according to recent estimates, in 2030 will reach 8 billion people and 9 billion in 2050 – plus the entry of populations previously excluded into the consumer goods market and structural gaps in income distribution, make food security one of the most urgent challenges the world will have to face in coming years.

And the problem must be taken on from two different points of view: on the one hand, food security means guaranteeing the availability of food to the growing masses of the population, especially in developing countries. On the other hand, the quality and safety of the food produced and distributed must also be guaranteed.

For this reason, Food Security must be tackled simultaneously on a number of fronts: economic, environmental and geopolitical.