Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, healthy food. The availability of food for people of any class, gender, status, ethnicity, or religion is a
Women selling produce at a market in Lilongwe, Malawi
A Kenyan woman farmer at work in the Mount Kenya region
Goats are an important part of the solution to global food security because they are fairly low-maintenance and easy to raise and farm.
Food Price Index with 5 major commodities groups – 2014–2024 Food Price Index Meat Dairy Cereals Oils Sugar
In politics, humanitarian aid, and the social sciences, hunger is defined as a condition in which an individual does not have the physical or financial capability to consume sufficient food to meet ba
Food security
…to exist when all the members of a family have consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food-secure individuals do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. Food security includes resilience to future disruptions of food supply. Such a disruption could occur due to various risk factors…
The Hunger March sculptures in Copenhagen
Martin Luther King Jr. (center), one of many 20th century political figures who considered it important to fight hunger: "When I die, don't build a monument to me. Don't bestow me degrees from great universities. Just clothe the naked. Say that I tried to house the homeless. Let people say that I tried to feed the hungry."
Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen in Chicago, 1931
A poster made by the United States Food Administration around the years 1914-1917 urging Americans to ration