food insecurity

[ food in-si-kyoor-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.

First recorded in 1975–80

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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