EnSci Chapter 10

• Food security


  The condition under which all or most of the people in a population have daily access to enough nutritious food to live active and healthy lives
• More than 1 billion people work in agriculture to grow crops on about 38% of the earth's ice-free land
• They produce more than enough food to meet the basic nutritional needs of every person on the earth
• Despite this food surplus, one of every six people in the world is not getting enough to eat
• Food insecurity


  Living with chronic hunger and poor nutrition, which threatens their ability to lead healthy and productive lives
• The root cause of food insecurity is poverty, which prevents poor people from growing or buying enough food to meet their needs
• About half of the world's people are trying to survive on the equivalent of $2.25 a day
• One out of six people struggle to get by on $1.25 a day
• Food security


  The condition under which all or most of the people in a population have daily access to enough nutritious food to live active and healthy lives
• More than 1 billion people work in agriculture to grow crops on about 38% of the earth's ice-free land
• They produce more than enough food to meet the basic nutritional needs of every person on the earth
• Despite this food surplus, one of every six people in the world is not getting enough to eat
• Food insecurity


  Living with chronic hunger and poor nutrition, which threatens their ability to lead healthy and productive lives
• The root cause of food insecurity is poverty, which prevents poor people from growing or buying enough food to meet their needs
• About half of the world's people are trying to survive on the equivalent of $2.25 a day
• One out of six people struggle to get by on $1.25 a day