Food Security: Enough Healthy Food for Everyone

Food security means enough healthy food for everyone, everywhere. The opposite of food security, known as food insecurity, causes hunger. Hunger affects the lives of many families around the world. Hunger and food insecurity affect children the most. Hunger causes lower energy, less focus, more sicknesses, sad feelings, and poor sleep—all of which prevent children from growing and developing to their full potential. Hungry children can not learn well at school, they often cannot participate in activities like sports, and they get sick more frequently and for longer. The world produces enough food to feed every family, but food is not shared fairly. The Food Insecurity Experience Scale is commonly used to measure food insecurity, so we can tackle it. Today’s children are tomorrow’s leaders, scientists, inventors, and artists—your resourcefulness and compassion can help find new, effective solutions for food insecurity and hunger.