food-insecure

The USDA tracks what it calls food-insecure people in 70 developing countries.

USDA Cuts Global Hunger Estimate by 80 Million Scott Kilman 2011

The USDA tracks what it calls food-insecure people in 70 developing countries.

USDA Cuts Global Hunger Estimate by 80 Million Scott Kilman 2011

And there's the principal in rural Bates County, Mo., which has the area's highest rate of what researchers term "food-insecure" children, who sees kids act out or underperform on Monday mornings because they haven't eaten enough over the weekend.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

And there's the principal in rural Bates County, Mo., which has the area's highest rate of what researchers term "food-insecure" children, who sees kids act out or underperform on Monday mornings because they haven't eaten enough over the weekend.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

The report was issued by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, or FEWS NET, a USAID-funded program that gathers information about food prices, the climate and other factors in food supply and analyzes the potential impact on what famine researchers refer to as "food-insecure" regions.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

The agency, which considers people food-insecure if they consume less than about 2,100 calories per day, put 953 million in that category in 2009.

USDA Cuts Global Hunger Estimate by 80 Million Scott Kilman 2011

USDA economist Stacey Rosen said Wednesday that better-than-expected grain harvests last year in Sub-Saharan Africa, the world's most food-insecure region, helped to shield many poor people there from the big increases in global food-commodity prices in the last half of 2010.

USDA Cuts Global Hunger Estimate by 80 Million Scott Kilman 2011

PSNP, a collaborative effort between the Ethiopian government and development partners, aimed to provide transfers to people in chronically food-insecure areas and structured to prevent asset-depletion for households and create additional assets for communities.

Horn of Africa: How can the region be better prepared for recurrent drought? | Vinod Thomas 2011

While the environment is being torn down from our unsustainable practices and careless wastefulness, we are also experiencing a saddening growth of food-insecure people in our own neighborhoods.

Maria Rodale: Eat Trash, Save the Planet Maria Rodale 2011

Today, even with imports, more than 2.4 million people out of a population of 9 million are estimated to be food-insecure.

Beverly Bell: Haitian Farmers: Growing Strength to Grow Food Beverly Bell 2010