**9. Conclusion**

The importance of food security to public health is incontestable due to the fact that 870 million people throughout the world consume a smaller number of calories than their requirements. There is an imperative need for improved methods of managing the precarious state of food supply. Food access refers to economic as well as physical access to food; though numerous tools are used to measure food access to measure food procurement, food safety is generally excluded from food security metrics despite growing issues about mycotoxin contamination. Many climate change worrywarts assume a changing climate would make food security more challenging.

*Food Security Challenges and Approaches*
