LESSON 13

• The four Dimensions/ Pillars of Food Insecurity Physical AVAILABILITY of food Economic and physical ACCESS to food Food utilization Stability
• Food Insecurity - It refers to the state of being without consistent access to an adequate quantity of affordable nutritious food.
• Hunger - often refers to a complex state of a person who with no single source to obtain food
• Uncertainty - this usually happens whenever the ability to acquire suitable foods in freely satisfactory way is limited or future availability and access of food is unsure.
• Insufficiency - this usually happens whenever there is a perception of malnutrition, which is a disorder due to insufficient intake of nutrients to meet necessary body cells requirements for a healthy living.
• Hunger - is usually understood as an uncomfortable or painful sensation caused by insufficient food energy consumption. Scientifically, hunger is referred to as food deprivation.
• Malnutrition - results from deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in the consumption of macro- and/or micronutrients. Malnutrition may be outcome of food insecurity, or it may relate to non-food factors such as: Inadequate care practices for childrenInsufficient health services; and An unhealthy environment
• Poverty - is undoubtedly a cause of hunger, lack of adequate and proper nutrition itself i