Sentences with phrase «are food insecure»

According to CSIR studies, 13 million people go hungry every day, 20 % of households are food insecure, South Africans throw away almost 10 million tonnes of food per year (more than the UK), 30 % of all agricultural production ends up as waste to landfill, and the total cost of food waste is estimated at R61.5 billion per year.

Just as when people are food insecure, when individuals aren't sure where they can stay or sleep, it's incredibly difficult to focus on other challenges, legal or otherwise.

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«Currently in India, 213 million people are food insecure and over 100 million are reliant on the national food welfare system, which uses huge quantities of wheat,» he said.

The new evidence comes in a paper in the journal Food Security, «Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices?

A recent report finds that 36 percent of college students are food insecure.

Those who are food insecure and suffer periods of even moderate deprivation may also overeat when food does become available, resulting in chronic ups and downs in food intake that can contribute to weight gain (Smith & Richards, 2008).

It also revealed that a lot of them are food insecure

Even today, 20 million people in the Sahel region in Africa, which extends across the continent, are food insecure, he added.

«Globally when you look at the 16 states, the expected estimate is that more than eight million people are food insecure.

«There are more than 35,000 Rockland residents who are food insecure and one in -LSB-...]

«There are more than 35,000 Rockland residents who are food insecure and one in five children who live in poverty,» said Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef during October's «Hunger Summit.»

According to the anti-hunger nonprofit organization Share Our Strength, 16 million children in the United States are food insecure.

Households that are food insecure often skip meals, cut back on the sources, quality and quantity of what they eat, or rely on emergency food.

Because of limited financial resources, households that are food insecure also may use coping strategies to stretch budgets that are harmful for health, such as engaging in cost - related medication underuse, postponing or forgoing preventive or needed medical care, or forgoing the foods needed for special medical diets (e.g., diabetic diets).

The U.S. is «by far the most productive and efficient agriculture society in the world, we still have 49 million Americans who are food insecure, and 16 million of them are children,» he said last month, according to Food Safety News.

«There are food insecure and hungry kids in every Congressional district and every demographic,» Lucy Melcher, the director of advocacy and government relations for the nonprofit Share Our Strength said in a statement to The Washington Post.

One out of every three children in the city are at risk of hunger or are food insecure.

Do you know, in the year 2016, 1 in 4 children are food insecure in the U.S.?

As a President of a very large Food Pantry (Al Beech West Side Food Pantry in Kingston, Pa), I know to well that 1 in 5 children do not know where their next meal is coming from meaning they are food insecure.

Nearly 1 billion people worldwide are chronically undernourished and 50 million people in the U.S. are food insecure.

That means a staggering 19 percent of households with children are food insecure.

It also enables and encourages food recovery to help those that are food insecure.

We take pride in knowing that Harvest helps people each and every day, and that unfortunately, in the U.S. where approximately 40 % of food goes to waste, still one in seven people are food insecure — that rate is even higher for households with children.

«People who are food insecure are going to hunger organizations, so they quality of the food becomes important,» O'Neill explained.

412 Food Rescue is a nonprofit that depends on your support to deliver our mission to rescue surplus food and serve those who are food insecure.

In carrying out the study, researchers made sure to delineate the students who are food insecure — not eating at all or not eating enough because they can't afford to — from students who don't want to eat or want to use their money for other purposes.

«We know that 1.1 million food parcels are given out in Trussell Trust food banks alone but these figures are clearly the tip of the iceberg - the United Nations has estimated over eight million people in the UK are food insecure, approximately 2,000 food banks and food bank centres are in operation, rising levels of hospital admissions due to malnutrition cost the NHS # 12 billion per year and there are record levels of in - work poverty.»

That's a big improvement from 2014, when 14 percent of households were food insecure, and from 2011, when the food insecurity rate neared 15 percent in the wake of the Great Recession.

According to the 2015 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, one in ten Canadians and one in five children is food insecure, meaning they don't know where their next meal is coming from.

Children and adults were food insecure at times during the year in 9.9 percent of households with children and at times, those 3.8 million households were unable to provide adequate, nutritious food for their children.

In 2013, 17.5 million households were food insecure (14.3 percent) and 6.8 million households (5.6 percent) had very low food security, which was also essentially unchanged from the 5.7 percent in 2011 and 2012, according to the USDA report.

All of this occurs while one out of every six Americans is food insecure.

More than 14 % of households in the U.S. were food insecure, in 2009, meaning they did not know where their next meal would come from.

One out of six Americans is food insecure, and more than four out of five is produce - deficient.

(To be food insecure means not knowing when or how one will get their next meal.)

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 24 percent of rural children lived in poverty and 686,000 rural households with children were food insecure in 2014.

In 2013, about 15 percent of American seniors were food insecure, according to the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger.

In New York City, 16.4 percent of the population is food insecure.

«Almost a third of the households were food insecure, and more than 16 percent had very low food security, meaning they were skipping meals, at risk for experiencing hunger and probably missing work and school and suffering health problems as a result,» said study lead author Michelle Kaiser, an assistant professor of social work at Ohio State.

«We found that those patients who were food insecure had higher A1C levels and ate fewer vegetables,» said Britt Rotberg, MS, RDN, LD, CDE, BC - ADM, Assistant Director of the Emory Diabetes Education Training Academy, Emory Latino Diabetes Education Program at the Emory School of Medicine.

Approximately 24 percent of Latino households in the U.S. were food insecure in 2013, compared to 14 percent for Americans overall, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

It also showed that those who were food insecure ate fewer vegetables than those who were food secure.

The study found that those who were food insecure had average A1C levels of 9.9 percent, compared to 7.6 percent for those who were food secure.

When looking at patients who consumed more than one - third of a plate of non-starchy vegetables at their main meal, 62 percent were food secure compared to 38 percent who were food insecure.

If someone is food insecure and isn't sure where their next meal is coming from, it makes a lot of sense for them to overeat when they get the chance.

Wisconsin Hope Lab recently conducted the largest national college survey that illustrated over 36 % of students were food insecure (not enough money to eat).

Approximately 111,279 households in Nebraska were food insecure in 2016 — meaning they didn't know where their next meal was coming from at some point during the last year.

Seventy - one percent of the respondents were fully food secure, 17 % were marginally food secure, and 12 % were food insecure.

In fact, approximately 106,834 households across Nebraska were food insecure in 2012.