Food Security as Basic Goods Provision

Food security is a central aspect of human well‐being. Given current trends in population, climate change, water availability, and conflict, however, food security is under threat for hundreds of millions of people. This article will argue that we can helpfully assess food security through the lens of basic goods provision. The basic goods approach is a type of development ethics that emphasizes the role of basic goods and services as prerequisites for well‐being and subsistence rights fulfillment. The article summarizes this version of development ethics and then focuses on food security as one important type of basic goods provision.