Food and Nutrition Unit 4

Question 1

What are staple foods?

Answer 1

A food that will grow in a region.

Question 2

What are some of the staple foods around the world?

Answer 2

Rice, wheat, corn, maize, protein, millet, potatoes, and sorghum.

Question 3

Define food security and food insecurity.

Answer 3

Food security means all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Food insecurity is when people can’t access the food they need to live their fullest lives.

Question 4

What are strategies to support food insecurity?

Answer 4

Increasing the minimum wage, eating less expensive food, borrowing food or money, using credit, improving trade policy, and volunteering at a food bank.