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15/04/2024

Slow Food is a global movement of local groups and activists united by the common goal of ensuring everyone has access to good, clean and fair food. Founded in Italy in 1986, we are now active in more than 160 countries.

Slow Food is a global movement of local groups and activists united by the common goal of ensuring everyone has […]

15/04/2024

The 11th Global Food Security Index shows a deterioration in the global food environment for the third year, threatening food security

The Global Food Security Index (GFSI) is an annual assessment measuring food security through affordability, availability, quality and safety, and sustainability and adaptation metrics worldwide.

15/04/2024

Food security is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as:

when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

See Hungry for change: the state of hunger and food security 2014 Food security is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as: when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food prefe...

15/04/2024

Most people can go to the grocery store and buy the food they need, but not everyone can get enough healthy food easily. This is called food insecurity, and it can look different for different people.

Having enough healthy food to make it through every day is a struggle for some people. Find out what food insecurity is, how it can affect your health, and ways organizations are working to address it.

15/04/2024

Food insecurity has serious implications for people’s health and wellbeing beyond just poor nutrition and diet. And as a result, it takes a serious toll on health care resources and spending.

Food insecurity has serious implications for people’s health beyond just poor nutrition, and takes a serious toll on health care resources and spending.

15/04/2024

Food safety is the need for people to have food that is free of contamination. On the other hand, food security is the necessity for people to have access to food.

Who has access to safe, nutritious food depends largely on their geographical location and financial means. For some, obtaining food is as simple as opening their refrigerator door or walking to a nearby store. For too many, however, safe, nutritious food is not available. Those people may live in a food desert or experience poverty, conflict, or famine conditions. Countless scientists, activists, and nonprofit organizations are working to address this fundamental inequality. Underlining its significance, the United Nations has elevated the issue to the second of 17 Sustainable Development Goals, “Zero Hunger.”

Stakeholders are developing and testing screening tools and interventions to address nutrition insecurity, additive to and distinct from food insecurity. Given nutrition and health inequities in diet-related diseases, achieving nutrition security must be a priority for health care systems, governmen...

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Food security is a basic human right. In fact, having access to at least an adequate amount of nutritious food could be seen as the most basic of all human rights.

Food security is a basic human right. For millions, it's a right that's not being met. Here's what that means.

15/04/2024

Nearly a billion people across the world experience the effects of food insecurity.

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Thai Peanut vegetable pizza

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Cool summer vegetable pizza

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Mango, avocado, cucumber salad

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Coconut grove fruit salad