16 enabling environment in which people can use their full potential to produce or procure adequate food for themselves and their families. However, when people are not able to feed themselves with their own means, for instance because of an armed conflict, natural disaster or because they are in detention, the State must provide food directly. Second misconception is that people are denied their right to food because there is not enough food to go round. However, according to FAO, the world produces enough food to feed its entire population. The root cause of hunger and malnutrition is not a lack of food but a lack of access to available food. For example, poverty, social exclusion and discrimination often undermine people’s access to food, not only in developing countries but also in some of the most economically developed countries where there is an abundance of food.41 Third, the right to food is not same as food security. The right to food is different from food security. Food security is a precondition for the full enjoyment of the right to food. However, the concept of food security itself is not a legal concept per se and does not impose obligations on the States to provide food. 42 10. Contents of the Right to Food Objective 7.4 of the World Food Summit Plan of Action established the task to clarify the content of the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, as stated in the ICESCR and other relevant international and regional instruments. According to the General Comment No. 12, food must be adequate, available, and accessible. 43 The three elements also focus on different levels of analysis. 10.1 Adequacy According to the General Comment No. 12, the right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, have physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement. Concept of adequacy has both quantitative and qualitative dimensions. The right to adequate food shall therefore not be interpreted in a narrow or restrictive sense 41 Fact Sheet 34. Fact Sheet 34 43 Fact Sheet 34 42