Food security: a permanent solution

47. The problem of hunger cannot be resolved without an improvement in local food security(⁶⁹). "Food security exists when all people at all times have access to the food they need for a healthy active life(⁷⁰)." It is therefore important to develop programmes to exploit local production, while having at the same time effective legislation to protect croplands and guaranteeing access to them by the peasant population. One of the reasons why this has not yet been done in the developing countries is that so many obstacles have been raised. It is becoming increasingly more difficult and complicated for economic and business leaders in the developing countries to even define an agricultural policy. Of the many reasons for this situation, the main ones are price and currency fluctuations, which is also one of the effects of the over-production of agricultural commodities. In order to guarantee food security, the stability and equity of international trade will also have to be facilitated(⁷¹).