How to Use food insecurity in a Sentence

food insecurity

noun

• All but two of the six states with the highest rates of food insecurity opted out of the benefits.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2024
• In Arizona, one in nine adults and one in six kids face food insecurity.
  — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
• The threat of food insecurity isn’t a new one–it’s been plaguing workplaces for years.
  — Dilip Rao, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• While food insecurity remains, the progress is a sign of the farm sector’s resilience.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• The rate of food insecurity decreased in most counties despite the statewide jump.
  — Megan Banta, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 July 2023
• But as the scope of the event has increased, so has the level of food insecurity in both the country and the Valley, especially in recent years.
  — Dylan Wickman, The Arizona Republic, 9 May 2024
• To assist those with food insecurity, the rescue mission, the largest food re-distributer in the county, has launched Plates of Plenty.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
• In Arizona, one in nine adults and one in six kids already suffer from food insecurity.
  — Eshaan Sarup, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• The drought has triggered widespread food insecurity, with Somalia on the brink of famine.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2023
• One of the motivators of the work, Dennis said, was the realization that the issue of food insecurity was right in her backyard.
  — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2024
• Almost a year and a half since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, food insecurity was high on the summit’s agenda.
  — Camille Behnke, NBC News, 29 July 2023
• The partners help get food to people with food insecurity throughout San Diego County.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
• Opened a year ago, the grocery store has a mission of combating food insecurity and increasing access to healthy foods.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023
• People in those places are already struggling with food insecurity and high local food prices.
  — Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
• The health system and other essential services have collapsed, and more than half of all Afghans live below the poverty line amid acute levels of food insecurity.
  — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
• And leader after leader in the room made clear that, for the rest of the world, too, the consequences of what Russia has done are having a terrible, terrible impact, food insecurity around the world.
  — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• The school meal bill Walz signed ensures that every student can receive breakfast and lunch for no cost, part of an effort to reduce childhood food insecurity.
  — Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
• Gleaners chose the spot, which will primarily serve Warren and Detroit, based on how many people live there and food insecurity rates.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 7 May 2024
• Part of the work of the San Diego Hunger Coalition includes educating the public about the circumstances involving hunger and food insecurity.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• And those areas already have higher rates of food insecurity and poverty.
  — Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
• This helps to explain why both food insecurity and homelessness fell during Covid.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
• Today, South Sudan is on the front line of the climate crisis, with more than one million people facing severe food insecurity due to the worst floods since the 1960s (according to the United Nations).
  — Byabc News, ABC News, 30 June 2023
• There are still clashes in South Sudan, the economy is fragile at times and human rights groups warn of food insecurity for millions of residents.
  — Tim Reynolds, Orlando Sentinel, 30 July 2024
• David Harbour is teaming with retailer BoxLunch to raise awareness for hunger and food insecurity.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2023
• Writers and actors who face such food insecurity have been able to shop at World Harvest Food Bank, where guild members are allowed to fill their shopping carts with produce and other food items for free.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Moscow withdrew in July from the agreement, which was brokered by Ankara and the United Nations to get grain exports to countries struggling with food insecurity.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• The city also has one of the lowest percentages of residents struggling with food insecurity, about 6% compared to a study average of 10.4%.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 29 July 2024
• One analysis projected that, should the ban remain in place, corn costs could rise by 20 percent in Mexico and increase rates of food insecurity.
  — Linda Qiu, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• The children, Deas said, often have been exposed to violence on hotel properties, exhibit aggression or anxiety from living in a crowded single room, and face food insecurity because some hotel rooms don’t have kitchens.
  — Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
• Michael O'Callaghan is an advocate for cyclists and people experiencing homelessness who has also worked to eliminate food waste and reduce food insecurity.
  — Meira Gebel, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024