Kota Kinabalu: Food security is a concept that was first introduced in the mid-1970s when it was first discussed in the context of international food issues during the 1970 worldwide food crisis.
According to the 1996 World Food Summit, food security is defined as when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
The development of the agriculture industry in Malaysia can be traced to the colonial era. At that time the British empire focused on commodity crops such as rubber.
