food secure

American  

[food si-kyoor] / ˈfud sɪˈkyʊər /

Or food-secure

adjective

1. having or characterized by ready access to safe and nutritionally adequate food.

   In addition to eating more meals and becoming more food secure, families there are also improving their housing conditions.

   A more sustainable and food-secure future needs to be built by all of us.

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Etymology

Origin of food secure

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

Most of those living without enough to eat are in South Asia, and women tend to be less food secure than men, the report says.

From Seattle Times

Children with avid eating were also less food secure than children who showed happy or typical eating behaviours.

From Science Daily

Our participants from this location were white, food secure and primarily highly educated.

From Salon

The South Bronx has one of the highest death rates from asthma in the country, in part because of dilapidated public housing; it is also one of the least food secure regions in America.

From New York Times