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Food Security
Food security is defined as the ability of a nation, to provide adequate food for its citizens and food insecurity loosely translated means the inability of a nation to provide food for its citizens. The ability of a nation to provide sufficient food for its population may be restricted by both internal and external factors for example political instability or other factors that may be beyond its control like the weather and unexpected changes in the climate that lead to crops failing and as a result there is a lack of food or there is insufficient food to go around. The food that is available must also be nutritious and to some degree able to fulfill the dietary requirements of an average person as opposed to food that while it may fill the belly has little or no dietary significance for example a ton of candy bars. A food secure nation is by definition a nation that has enough food that is readily available and that food is not only accessible but also affordabl
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Equity Summary
The origins of the law of equity date back to the period just after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Prior to that the only law that existed, as far as the courts were concerned, was common law, and it strictly adhered to the principle of Stare Decisis, a Roman legacy which established the system of judicial precedent which is based on the principle that like cases should be decided in like manner. Strict adherence to the doctrine however deprived the law of any sort of flexibility, and it resulted in some unfair decisions, and equity, which in the normal sense of the word means fairness, stepped in to mitigate the harshness and the rigidity of the common law system and to make the law more flexible. Litigants who were denied justice started petitioning the king and the king would hear their pleas and make a decision based on his conscious, setting aside the common law, if he had to, in that particular instance. Equitable decisions do not create a binding precedent.