Food Deserts

Access to Healthy Foods

Convenient availability to affordable foods that support healthy eating patterns. Access may be limited due to having a limited income or li…

Famine

The conditions when at least 20 per cent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutri…

Food Insecurity

Limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in sa…

Food Markets

Retail markets that sell food, especially fresh produce, meat, and seafood.

Food Security

Access generally by all in a community to enough nutritious food for an active, healthy life. (from http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsec/ accessed 4…

Food Supply

The production and movement of food items from point of origin to use or consumption.