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单词 food-insecure
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Definition of food-insecure in English:

food-insecure

adjective
  • Lacking reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.

    60 per cent of the country's population is classified as food-insecure
    food-insecure households
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Today, more than 36 million people in the United States live in food-insecure households, and at least 12 million of them are children under age 12.
    • In the year prior to the survey, about one-fifth of individuals in food-insecure households received help from food banks, soup kitchens or other charitable agencies.
    • The food aid covers the needs of a core group of mostly seasonally food-insecure households for up to three months.
    • Two-thirds of its population is on the brink of famine or "food-insecure", despite three-quarters of the country's grain already coming from the World Food Program.
    • The aim was to audit progress and assess how such initiatives, if spread on a much larger scale, could feed a growing world population that is already food-insecure.
    • The number of hungry people continues to fall gradually, but the reduction is concentrated in Asia while in much of Africa the number of food-insecure has risen.
    • Research consistently demonstrates that individuals in food-insecure households are at increased nutritional risk and have poorer health.
    • And from 1999 to 2002, says the USDA, the number of food-insecure households, urban and rural, rose by 15 percent to 12 million.
    • When we have to rely on external sources of food, and particularly multinationals, we are more food-insecure.
    • In the United States, the number of people in food-insecure households declined in the strong job market of the late 1990s-but rose when unemployment increased in 2001.
    • In food-insecure homes (homes uncertain of sufficient money to purchase food), employment levels dropped from 66 percent in 2000-2001 to 56.6 percent in 2002-2003.
    • In total, the survey found that an estimated three million Canadians, or 10 per cent, were considered to be living in a "food-insecure" household at some point during 1998/99.
    • Monitoring each and every household on a regular basis to check whether any of these or other features has caused it to become food-insecure is not just administratively difficult, it is actually impossible.
    • These implications range from the health problems likely in food-insecure clients, to the recommendations one can reasonably expect clients to follow, to health care system sustainability.
    • Children were the most likely to live in a food-insecure household (14 per cent), and seniors were least likely (four per cent).
    • In 2002, 34.9 million people lived in food-insecure households, including 13.1 million children.
 
 

Definition of food-insecure in US English:

food-insecure

adjective
  • Lacking reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.

    60 percent of the country's population is classified as food-insecure
    food-insecure households
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the year prior to the survey, about one-fifth of individuals in food-insecure households received help from food banks, soup kitchens or other charitable agencies.
    • The aim was to audit progress and assess how such initiatives, if spread on a much larger scale, could feed a growing world population that is already food-insecure.
    • Monitoring each and every household on a regular basis to check whether any of these or other features has caused it to become food-insecure is not just administratively difficult, it is actually impossible.
    • Children were the most likely to live in a food-insecure household (14 per cent), and seniors were least likely (four per cent).
    • In food-insecure homes (homes uncertain of sufficient money to purchase food), employment levels dropped from 66 percent in 2000-2001 to 56.6 percent in 2002-2003.
    • And from 1999 to 2002, says the USDA, the number of food-insecure households, urban and rural, rose by 15 percent to 12 million.
    • Research consistently demonstrates that individuals in food-insecure households are at increased nutritional risk and have poorer health.
    • Today, more than 36 million people in the United States live in food-insecure households, and at least 12 million of them are children under age 12.
    • These implications range from the health problems likely in food-insecure clients, to the recommendations one can reasonably expect clients to follow, to health care system sustainability.
    • The number of hungry people continues to fall gradually, but the reduction is concentrated in Asia while in much of Africa the number of food-insecure has risen.
    • When we have to rely on external sources of food, and particularly multinationals, we are more food-insecure.
    • In 2002, 34.9 million people lived in food-insecure households, including 13.1 million children.
    • The food aid covers the needs of a core group of mostly seasonally food-insecure households for up to three months.
    • In total, the survey found that an estimated three million Canadians, or 10 per cent, were considered to be living in a "food-insecure" household at some point during 1998/99.
    • In the United States, the number of people in food-insecure households declined in the strong job market of the late 1990s-but rose when unemployment increased in 2001.
    • Two-thirds of its population is on the brink of famine or "food-insecure", despite three-quarters of the country's grain already coming from the World Food Program.
 
 
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