Definitions
The desire to eat accompanied feeling weak and uncomfortable caused by the lack of consuming food.
What is hunger?
Provides monthly benefits to help low-income individuals and families afford food
What is SNAP?
The primary cause of hunger in developing countries
What is poverty?
An international organization that works to maintain international peace and security through increased cooperation between countries.
What are the United Nations?
Kroger partners with Feeding America to donate unsold food to local food banks
False. Walmart
When people have safe access to healthy and nutritious food to lead a healthy and happy life.
What is food security?
The name of the program that provides free or reduced-price meals to students during the school year
What is the National School Lunch Program?
Number of countries and/or territories that faced food insecurity in 2024
What are 53 countries and territories known for?
The year the United Nation plans to eliminate hunger by.
What is 2030?
Only unemployed people and the homeless experience food insecurity.
False. It can affect anyone
Where people don't always have access to nutritious food.
What is food insecurity?
The government program that provides nutritious foods and nutrition education to pregnant women and young children
What is WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)?
Due to water and food shortages, crop and livestock losses, millions of people are affected by this severely. In result, millions of people are suffering from chronic hunger.
What is the problem in Africa?
The year the first food bank established in the United States
What happened in 1967?
Slowing agriculture growth, climate change, land degradation and shrinking biodiversity are some of the contributors to hunger and food insecurity.
True
GHI is the abbreviation, and it is a collection of data to comprehensively measure and track global hunger by countries.
What is Global Hunger Index?
The name of the federal program that provides commodity foods to low-income Americans through food banks
What is the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)?
Continent has the highest prevalence of hunger
What is happening in Africa?
A report developed by the UN that states the food security and nutrition in the world and mentions the United Nation's ambitions to fight worldwide hunger.
What is the State of Food Security and Nutrition?
African Heads of State have vowed to stay committed to ending hunger in Africa by 2025.
True
In terms of hunger and food security, countries intervene in other countries' affairs to improve the living conditions of citizens.
What is global intervention?
Government agency oversees the administration of the SNAP program
What is the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)?
What United Nations agency leads international efforts to combat hunger?
What is the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)?
Percentage of food distributed by Feeding America's network consists of fresh produce
What is 40%?
Hunger and food insecurity are not urgent problems.
False. They are urgent problems.