The Four Dimensions of Food Security Flashcards
__________ is long-term or persistent.
Chronic food insecurity
What occurs when people are unable to meet their minimum food requirements over a sustained period of time?
Chronic food insecurity
What results from short-term shocks and fluctuations in food availability and food access (year-to-year variations in domestic food production, food prices, and household incomes)?
Transitory food insecurity
__________ is short-term and temporary.
Transitory food insecurity
What occurs when there is a sudden drop in the ability to produce or access enough food to maintain a good nutritional status?
Transitory food insecurity
What results from extended periods of poverty, lack of assets, and inadequate access to productive or financial resources?
Chronic food insecurity
What can be overcome with long-term development measures used to address poverty?
Chronic food insecurity
In what scenario would you need more direct access to food to enable them to raise their productive capacity?
In chronic food insecurity
What can be overcome with early warning capacity and safety net programs?
Transitory food insecurity
What are the four pillars of food security?
- Availability
- Access
- Utilization
- Stability
Which pillar makes the “foundation” of the house in food security?
Stability
What addresses the supply side of food security and is determined by the level of food production, stock levels, and net trade?
Physical availability of food
What addresses incomes, expenditure, markets and prices in achieving food security objectives?
Economic and physical access to food
What is the following definition: the way the body makes the most of various nutrients in food.
Food utilization
What addresses good care and feeding practices, food preparation, diversity of the diet and intra-household distribution of food?
Food utilization
