food securitynoun [ U ]
/ˌfuːd sɪˈkjʊə.rɪ.ti//ˌfuːd sɪˈkjʊr.ə.t̬i/the fact that a place is able to produce or obtain enough food to feed its population:
Climate change has potentially devastating implications for global food security.
the fact that a person or family is able to get enough food:
The report showed about 11 percent of Iowa households had low food security.
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- Their breakthrough scientific achievements have significantly increased food security for millions of people from Asia to Africa.
- Because most Americans take food security for granted, an attack on crops could catch the nation unprepared.
- Taking up farmland for industry represents a food security threat in a nation with 16 percent of the world's population but only 2 percent of its land.
- government programmes aiming to ensure food security for the poor and children
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Farming - general words
- agrarian
- agriculture
- corn earworm
- crop rotation
- farming
- harrow
- harvest
- homestead
- produce
- PYO
- rabi
- reap
- rick
- seed
- slash-and-burn
- subsistence farming
- the Agrarian Revolution
- the green revolution
- thrash
- till
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