Food security is widely described as the condition in which all people at all times can acquire safe, nutritionally adequate, and personally acceptable foods in a manner that maintains human dignity.

Food Security is everyone's business.

Food Security includes the circle of:

• Planting 
• Growing
• Harvesting
• Transporting
• Shopping
• Preparing
• Eating, and
• Preserving our environment.

Food Security means Equity and Choice at every point.

Growing Food Security in Alberta (GFSA) has come to understand food security as the satisfaction of five elements:

• Availability - sufficient supplies of food for all people at all times
• Accessibility - physical and economic access to food for all at all times
• Acceptability - culturally acceptable and appropriate food and distribution systems
• Adequacy - nutritional quality, safety, sustainability of available sources/methods of food supply
• Action - ensuring the social and economic infrastructures are in place to enable action that will ensure the previous four elements of food security.

(Adapted from the work of Rod MacRae)