The United States is viewed by the world as a country with plenty of food, yet not all
households in America are food secure, meaning access at all times to enough food for an …

Abstract In April 1995, the US Bureau of the Census conducted the first collection of
comprehensive food security data as a supplement to its regular Current Population Survey …

The most recent survey effort to determine the extent of food insecurity and hunger in the
United States, the Food Security Supplement, included a series of questions to assess this …

Since 1992, the US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has led a
collaborative effort to develop a comprehensive benchmark measure of the severity and …

Excerpts: Food insecurity is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon which varies through
a continuum of successive stages as the condition becomes more severe. Each stage …

Objective: To describe the history and current status of household food security
measurement. Conclusions: In the 1980s evidence of rising levels of hunger was a concern …

Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year
2001. The rest were food insecure at least some time during the year, meaning they did not …

Abstract United States Department of Agriculture defines food insecure as answering
affirmatively to three or more food insecurity questions describing a household's ability to …

The presence of hunger in American households due to insufficient resources to obtain food
has been a long-standing challenge to US health, nutrition, and social policy. The success of …

Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in
2003, meaning that they had access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for …