What is Food Defense?

What is Food Defense? What is Food Protection?

"Food Defense" means resiliency of the food system — reducing the impact of system attacks or catastrophic events.

"Food Safety"  means food system reliability — reducing exposure to natural hazards, errors, or failures in the food system.

"Food Protection" is an umbrella term encompassing both "Food Defense" and "Food Safety."

"Food Security" is different — it refers to food supply sufficiency: access to nutritionally adequate and safe food.