What Is Food Insecurity?

Feeding the world; what does it mean, how can we do that, and who needs fed. These are questions we often ask our selves when talking about food security, hunger, and feeding the world. Hunger has always been a problem and is increasing as the world increases with more people to feed. I myself have never been food insecure, but I grew up in Mitchell County, IA where many people go hungry on a daily basis. People all over the world are struggling everyday to put food on the table for themselves and their kids. Why are so many people going hungry when we produce enough food to feed them? That question is a huge concern for many as well as myself. Throughout this essay I am going to discuss what food insecurity is, why its important, the factors

Food security and food insecurity are two terms that have been effecting the world and the people in it, in the past but also as time goes on. Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious (USDA). Food insecurity is almost the opposite as food security, it is the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food (USDA). As of 2015, 87.3% of U.S households were food secure leaving 12.7% household’s food insecure (USDA). 12.7% does not seem like a huge percentage compared to the 87.3% when comparing households who are food secure and insecure, but that 12.7% of insecure households accounts for more then 42 million people and a little more then 540,000 children (USDA). Food insecurity can also be referred to as low food security and very low food security. Low food security are households who obtain enough food to avoid substantially disrupting their eating patterns or reducing food intake by using a variety of coping strategies such as eating less varied diets, participating in federal food assistance programs, or getting emergency food from community panties (lecture slide pg 8). While very low food security is when normal eating patterns of one or more household members were disrupted and

As stated earlier the population is expected to increase meaning that there will be more people going hungry and more households that are food insecure. The United Nations have predicted that 2050 the world population is expected to exceed 9 billion which means that the global food production will have to double or at least increase by 60% to feed this growing population (LECTURE SLIDE pg 6). If we have having problems with hunger and food insecurity now, what will happen in 2050 when there are billions more to