Abstract:

The concept of food security is scientifically defined as "everyone's permanent access to food for an active and healthy life". At the individual level, food security is considered the right of every human being to food, which is the first in the human rights system, launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1963 in Rome, through the famous manifesto entitled "Proclamation of the right of every human being" to eat to satisfy their hunger ”. The European Union's food security concerns became more frequent during the debates on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy in the horizon 2014-2020 and were used as an argument in favor of maintaining the CAP as a strong and integrated policy. In this respect, it has been established that food security for the population must be the most important objective of the CAP.

The study identified that the issue of food security has become paramount, due to rising food demand and agricultural prices. At present, the countries of the European Union do not face major problems in terms of food security in terms of food availability and supply, but the income gaps and the poor development of some countries, which lead to lower living standards. of certain categories of the population can raise problems regarding the population's access to food and can affect food security in some of the poorer EU Member States, including Romania. Romania's vulnerability in terms of food insecurity (and poverty in general) is given by the differentiation between living conditions between urban and rural areas (Alexandri, 2013).[2]

The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of food security in Romania and the presentation of future perspectives for their sustainable provision.