food security

[ foodsi-kyoor-i-tee ]

/ ˈfud sɪˈkyʊər ɪ ti /

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noun

an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.

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Origin of food security

First recorded in 1970–75

OTHER WORDS FROM food security

food se·cure, food-se·cure, adjective

Words nearby food security

food poisoning, food pollen, food processor, food pyramid, food science, food security, food service, food stamp, foodstuff, food stylist, food truck

How to use food security in a sentence

As food security concerns mount in the country, China faces growing pressure to import more grain from world market.
The Environmental Challenges of China's Recovery After COVID-19|Yanzhong Huang|February 2, 2021|Time
Kalibata, a former minister for agriculture in Rwanda, played a large role in bringing food security to the mostly agricultural country.
Agnes Kalibata, the UN's Food Systems Chief, on How Science Can Transform Farming to Help Save the Planet|Aryn Baker|January 28, 2021|Time
In August, President Xi Jinping launched a “clean plate campaign,” calling food waste “shocking and distressing” and highlighting the need to “maintain a sense of crisis about food security” in China.
How China Could Change the World by Taking Meat Off the Menu|Charlie Campbell/Shanghai|January 22, 2021|Time
One is access to markets, which alone is a huge source of food waste, and the other is food security because of a lack of stable growing conditions exacerbated by climate change.
SunCulture wants to turn Africa into the world’s next bread basket, one solar water pump at a time|Jonathan Shieber|December 4, 2020|TechCrunch

These early memories would leave a major impression and seed our interest in food security and sustainable and renewable agriculture.
Meet Four Craft Chocolate Makers Decolonizing the Industry|Jinji Fraser|October 22, 2020|Eater
This is a blow against freedom of speech, we were told, by the likes of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A Charlie Hebdo reporter said that security provision had been relaxed in the last month or so and the police car disappeared.
France Mourns—and Hunts|Nico Hines, Christopher Dickey|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It opens with Huckabee's dramatic recollection of going through security at the airport.
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!|Olivia Nuzzi|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Security officials told Agence France-Presse that the gas station manager said he had recognized the two men.
France Mourns—and Hunts|Nico Hines, Christopher Dickey|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.
Mexico’s Priests Are Marked for Murder|Jason McGahan|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
This treacherous sort of calm, we thought, might forbode a storm, and we did not allow it to lull us into security.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The general commanded a halt, and ordered the men to refresh and strengthen themselves by food and drink.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
It was he who first said, If thine enemy hunger give him food, if he thirst give him drink.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
These officers are bound to maintayne themselves and families with food and rayment by their owne and their servant's industrie.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.