Key Terms on Food Security and Development

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Famine

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When people face a complete lack of access to food and other basic needs and experience mass starvation, death, and destitution.

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Food Desert

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Defined as urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food.

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Food Insecurity

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A situation that exists when people lack secure access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life.

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Food Security

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The state of having reliable access to a sufficient quality of affordable, nutritious food.

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Green Revolution

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Beginning in the mid-20th century, a large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizer, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties.

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Hunger

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An uncomfortable feeling in your stomach that is caused by the need for food; when a person cannot get enough of their right kinds of food to be healthy.

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Malnutrition

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A condition resulting when a person’s diet does not provide adequate nutrients for growth and maintenance.

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Millennium Development Goals

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Endorsed by the United Nations in September 2000, eight measurable goals were declared as a commitment to build a safer, more prosperous, and equitable world with a target date of 2015.

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Sustainable Development Goals

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Adopted in September 2015, this set of 17 goals seek to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda; each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years.

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Undernourishment

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Not getting enough food or not getting enough variety of healthy food for good health and growth.