Sentences with phrase «acute food insecurity»

The report shows that, in 2017, almost 124 million people faced levels of acute food insecurity or worse.

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While it remains most acute in urban core neighborhoods with intergenerational poverty, 31 hunger is increasing in suburban locales and is most prevalent in rural Southern locales.32 Since wages have been stagnant or eroding in many industries, two - thirds of families experiencing food insecurity have at least one working adult, and many might initially appear to be maintaining a middle - class lifestyle.33

Due to their lack of ownership over land (and other reasons mentioned previously), this constant positive feedback loop of injustice leads to women being at a higher risk of losing their land which results in food insecurity and acute poverty.