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UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Food Insecurity

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What is food insecurity?
A person is food insecure when they lack regular access to enough safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life. This may be due to unavailability of food and/or lack of resources to obtain food. Food insecurity can be experienced at different levels of severity.

Source: https://www.fao.org/hunger/en/

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Last update: 29 March 2023
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