Agricultural inputs and food security

Food security is a broad interdisciplinary process with multi-sectoral implications that go beyond the food production, supply and procurement needs. Ensuring consumption availabilities has lately gained particular importance due to the evolution of the prices of production factors. The analysis of annual indices for energy, agriculture and food processing shows that energy prices (coal, crude oil and natural gas) have registered spectacular increases. The common responses to problems related to the scarcity of resources include higher prices, while the common responses to the management of resources involve their more efficient use, introducing alternatives and recovery of resource after use, involvement of public factors in supporting agricultural production.