IBGEOG: Food insecurity

When all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life'. For a household this means access by all its members at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life.

• Resource security

• Energy security

• Food security

Otherwise known as a charity or civil society group, these organisations often work towards increasing food security e.g. the Red cross or Oxfam

• Non-governmental organisation

• Multi-governmental organisation

• Governmental organisation

• International organisation

Food shortages caused by natural factors e.g. local difficulties in supply, perhaps the result of drought or floods (two extremes of water availability).

• Economic causes (FED)

• Physical cause (FAD)

Food shortages caused by the political or economic framework in an area. Rising cost of food related to average income, are major factors in the availability of food. These are human/political factors leading to food insecurity.

• Economic causes (FED)

• Physical causes (FAD)

The widespread, prolonged shortage of food that causes disease and death from starvation within a geographical area. Notable examples over recent decades have occurred in Somalia (2011-2012) and the Sahel (2012, 2005-2006).

• Food insecurity

• Famine

• Drought

• Malnutrition

Emergency assistance provided to countries facing famine. There are both positive and negative consequences of this type of response.

• Food aid

• Development aid

• Multilateral aid

• Bilateral aid

Crops that have been genetically engineered to be resistant to fungi, salt, cold, to be nutritionally better.

• GNY

• GNO

• GMO

• GMY

Lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat.

• Food insecurity

• Famine

• Drought

• Malnutrition