What is Food Insecurity?

Food insecurity is when a person or multiple people do not have access to or enough healthy and safe food to sustain themselves. However, food insecurity can also happen if people don’t know when or where their next meal will come from. For example, if you get your paycheck at the beginning of the week but it is not enough to last the whole week, you might have to live without food until your next paycheck. There are also different levels of food insecurity, including “Low food security, which relates to reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet, and Very low food security, which relates to disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake.” In 2022, between 691 and 783 million people faced hunger, an increase of 122 million people in contrast to 2019.