| 2001 - 538 pages
...for a population to be healthy and well nourished. Households are food secure when they have assured access at all times to enough food for an active healthy life, with no need for recourse to emergency food sources or other extraordinary coping behaviors to meet... | |
| David N. Weisstub, David C. Thomasma, S. Gauthier, G.F. Tomossy - 2001 - 276 pages
...estimate numbers of households at high risk of nutritional inadequacy. Food security is defined as access: at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life and includes at minimum: (a) the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and (b)... | |
| 2001 - 92 pages
...Drawing from the American Institute of Nutrition's definitions of 1990, "food security" is the assured access at all times to enough food for an active healthy life. The definition means a household has access to enough food that is safe, nutritious, and acquired in... | |
| D. S. Mills, S. M. McDonnell - 2005 - 268 pages
...understood and is now emphasized more than food production in social policy. It is defined as having access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Smith et al. (2000) summarize the factors which interact to assure food security. For the rural poor,... | |
| George Kent - 2005 - 300 pages
...reported that some 31 million Americans were food insecure, in the sense that they did not have ensured access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life (Andrews et al. 1999). More recently, the USDA found that the prevalence of food insecurity in the... | |
| Sari Edelstein - 2006 - 982 pages
...ideal is to ensure that all older Americans are food secure, meaning that throughout the year they have "access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life."lv A household food security study conducted by the US Department of Agriculture in 2003 found... | |
| Arlene Spark - 2007 - 578 pages
...William de Kooning (1904-1997) At the household level, food security means that all family members have access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Certain groups of Americans are more at risk of material hardship than others. These groups, which... | |
| Isobel R. Contento - 2007 - 510 pages
...statistics show that about 11% to 12% of American households are food insecure, meaning that they do not have access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The prevalence of food insecurity with hunger is about 3% to 4%, hunger... | |
| Ryan H. Nobbins - 2007 - 236 pages
...for their children's nutritional needs is linked to the family's food security — that is, to its access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. [61] Households are classified as food insecure based on reports of difficulty obtaining enough food,... | |
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