How to Use food insecurity in a Sentence

food insecurity

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, comes at a time when food prices and food insecurity have increased.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 17 Jan. 2024
• As climate change worsens, flooding, drought, and other calamities will increase food insecurity around the globe.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
• At the picket lines, members have spoken of struggling to pay rent or obtain healthcare coverage, while some face food insecurity.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• The restaurant chain teamed up with Feeding America to help communities across the U.S. fight food insecurity.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• Now, the pressure is on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers to fill the gaps as experts warn of worsening food insecurity and food banks are scrambling to prepare for an influx in clients.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• CalMatters takes a deep dive into the scale of food insecurity and the potential solutions to these persistent challenges like aid mismatch and red tape.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• The 26-year-old launched his foundation to address food insecurity and mental health needs in Ohio and Louisiana in October.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 Mar. 2023
• The unrelenting drought that has devastated the Horn of Africa has left more than 20 million people facing acute food insecurity.
  — Vanessa Kerry, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• One of the ironies is that despite the relatively positive global crop situation, the world’s push to reduce food insecurity has stalled.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• There’s no way to spin it as other than tragic, given what’s happened: the number of deaths in Ukraine; the amount of destruction; the consequences for other countries, including food insecurity.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024