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| − | + | '''Food security''' is access by all people at all times to enough [[food]] for an active healthy life. Food security at a minimum includes the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe [[food]], and an assured ability to acquire acceptable [[food]]s in socially acceptable ways, that is, without having to resort to emergency [[food]] supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies. Causes of [[food]] insecurity may include poverty, civil conflict, governmental corruption, environmental degradation, and natural disasters. | |
==References== | ==References== | ||
[http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Help/A-Z_Index/index.asp USDA Index] | [http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Help/A-Z_Index/index.asp USDA Index] | ||
[[Category:United States Government Word Definitions]] | [[Category:United States Government Word Definitions]] | ||
Latest revision as of 15:19, September 13, 2011
Food security is access by all people at all times to enough food for an active healthy life. Food security at a minimum includes the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, and an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways, that is, without having to resort to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies. Causes of food insecurity may include poverty, civil conflict, governmental corruption, environmental degradation, and natural disasters.