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food insecurity
[ food in-si-kyoor-i-tee ]
noun
- an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
Other Words From
- food in·se·cure, food-in·se·cure adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of food insecurity1
Example Sentences
This means infrastructure development elsewhere is crippled while humanitarian organizations have to re-direct longer term development funds to emergency response for food insecurity.
As the new administration continues to tackle rising food insecurity, it’s important to remember that vulnerable children, overall, will benefit from equitable access to school meals, Herbert said.
The climate crisis is already playing out not just in extreme weather and degradation of the natural environment but also in food insecurity and the displacement of millions.
It was able to bring back three editorial staff members, and has offered invaluable reporting through the pandemic, publishing stories on food insecurity in the county and covering otherwise under-reported communities, like local indigenous tribes.
The stay-at-home paradigm of the pandemic has also turned the focus toward the home garden and ways to mitigate food insecurity.
Famine will stalk the land and as many as seven million people will confront extreme food insecurity—in short, starvation.
Nationally, one out of five children experience what is now called food insecurity.
The only new war we need at this point is a war on our poverty, a war on our income inequality, and a war on food insecurity.
He makes a convincing argument that global food insecurity is a problem for all nations, regardless of wealth or influence.
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