Chronic food insecurity refers to less affordable food and growing urban poverty, while emergency food insecurity relates to breakdowns in the chain of food distribution.

This post was commissioned as part of a Pulitzer Center Global Voices Online series on Food Insecurity.

13.1 Consistent with the World Food Summit commitment, States should establish Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems (FIVIMS), in order to identify groups and households particularly vulnerable to food insecurity along with the reasons for their food insecurity.

We must effectively address global insecurity.

LEIPZIG Humanity currently faces numerous global challenges, including climate change, resource depletion, financial crisis, deficient education, widespread poverty, and food insecurity.

Desertification contributed to poverty, hunger, disease and food insecurity.

The State of Food Insecurity in the World. FAO, Rome.

Food insecurity also has affected women's and children's health adversely.

The World Food Programme (WFP) works directly with African Governments to tackle food insecurity by providing food aid and technical assistance to address the major symptoms and causes of food insecurity faced by Governments throughout sub Saharan Africa.

This not only impaired long term growth, but also increased food insecurity.

In Eritrea, widespread food insecurity continues to be the main humanitarian challenge.

ESCWA reported that food insecurity had adversely affected women's health (Ibid., para.

A blogger based in Djibouti writes about food insecurity in the country Food instability is about to hit Djibouti.

Those restrictions have also generated food insecurity and a decline in nutritional levels.

A global food crisis.

The Davos World Economic Forum ranks food insecurity as a major risk to humanity.

Heightened urban food insecurity, due to inflation and commodity shortages, has also been reported.

Economic collapse and food insecurity are now chronic conditions in Zimbabwe, as we heard.

The cards provide financial assistance, on a monthly basis, to families facing food insecurity.

With global problems like food insecurity and climate change threatening livelihoods around the world, nomadic and pastoral lifestyles have the potential to protect and sustain millions of people.

Measuring the degree of vulnerability to food insecurity is the first step in poverty assessment.

Europe and the Global Food Crisis

A failure to help the bottom billion could fuel mass migration and global insecurity.

A number of countries in Africa periodically experienced food insecurity as a result of adverse climatic conditions.

Tristram Stuart The global food waste scandal

NEW YORK Food systems have gone global.

FOCUSING ON GLOBAL FOOD AND HUNGER PROBLEMS

There is a general increase in food insecurity and a severe shortage of drinking water, as well as a decline in food consumption and nutritional levels.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has recently completed and published a food security and vulnerability analysis study for Timor Leste, which highlights key aspects of food insecurity and vulnerable areas in the country.

This approach will link with initiatives by the World Food Programme (WFP) to support school meal programmes, especially in areas with high levels of family food insecurity.

In this respect, the increasingly fragmented nature of global discourse characterized by underdevelopment, poverty, insecurity and alienation in large parts of the world and increasing concentration of wealth linked to excessive consumption and trends of global environmental degradation have contributed to increasing global tensions and insecurity.

Allotment gardens came up in Germany in the early 19th century as a response to poverty and food insecurity.

Ellen Gustafson Obesity Hunger 1 global food issue

The global food system will always need firefighters.

And, from the onset of the global financial crisis, the price of gold has often been portrayed as a barometer of global economic insecurity.

Victims of hunger must be allowed to access remedies when their authorities fail to take effective measures against food insecurity.

These reports draw on multimedia reporting featured on the Pulitzer Gateway to Food Insecurity and bloggers discussing the issues worldwide.

WFP presented its work on the use of space based technologies to support humanitarian response to food insecurity in Africa.

Despite a reported bumper harvest in 2004, large areas of the country remain severely affected by drought and food insecurity.

2.2 States should assess, in consultation with key stakeholders, the economic and social situation, including the degree of food insecurity and its causes, the nutrition situation and food safety.

The global food supply relies heavily on fossil fuels.

Cyber Insecurity

II. INSECURITY

In addition, food insecurity remains of paramount concern, and malnutrition rates exceed the emergency threshold in many parts of the country.

Food insecurity and economic meltdown are the result of bad policies, non transparency and the breakdown of the rule of law.