Global progress in reducing hunger during the 2000s stalled in 2010, and leading to an increase in undernourishment in several countries starting in 2014. The 2017, 2018 and 2019 editions of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World analysed the three main drivers challenging food...

Native Americans make up less than 2% of the population of the USA, but suffer from some of the highest rates of food insecurity, poverty, diet-related diseases, and other socioeconomic challenges. This study examined unique attributes of food security in Native American communities in the Klamath...

This paper aims to better understand the resilience and further entrenchment of food aid through food banks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the first months of the pandemic in the Netherlands, concerns quickly rose about the number of people falling into conditions of food...

Sub-Saharan Africa has suffered from persistent food insecurity in the past two decades. This chapter traces the evolution of food security as a concept, and the contribution of the World Food Programme to providing food security. The emphasis is on the role of food aid in reducing the degree of ...

USDA makes sure that nutritious USDA Foods are made available to States, Indian Tribal Organizations and Emergency Feeding Organizations to help feed survivors of natural disasters and other emergencies when needed.

Background: Food security status has been assessed as a representative score for households; however, different members in the same household may perceive and report food insecurity differently. A high prevalence of food insecurity has been reported among Latino households, therefore understanding...

Introduction: Despite UN recommendations to monitor food insecurity using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), to date there are no published reports of its validity for The Bahamas, nor have prevalence rates of moderate or severe food insecurity been reported for the remote island nation....

Without refute, a sustainable global food security can only be achieved when all folks have physical, social and economic access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient supply of food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for healthy life. To this end, quest to achieve this dream has been on ...

This annual report chronicles the activities of the World Food Programme (WFP) during 2008, including their life-saving food and nutrition assistance to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar; to the victims of 4 storms in Haiti; to the people affected by hunger due to conflicts and crises in...

Assessments of the severity of food insecurity within Australian university students are lacking, and the experience of food insecurity in Australian university staff is unknown. A crosssectional online survey in March 2022 aimed to characterize the severity of food insecurity in students,...