What does food security mean at the household level?
Food security means that household members had access at all times to enough food for an active healthy life. Q3. And food insecurity? Food insecurity means that a household had limited or uncertain availability of food, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (i.e., without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other unusual coping strategies). Many food insecure households were worried or unsure whether they would be able to get enough to eat, and most reduced the quality, variety, or desireabilty of their diets. They may have resorted to emergency food sources or other extraordinary coping behaviors to meet their basic food needs. Q4. We all get hungry now and then. What does hunger mean in this report? The physiological phenomenon is the same, but hunger as described in this report is involuntary hunger that results from not being able to afford enough food. People are not counted as “hungry” for these statist
