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Food-secure

adj.hopeful, resilientprofessional

What it means

Having reliable access to enough nutritious food.

Reach for it when describing reliable access to enough nutritious food

The new cooperative helped fifty households become food-secure.

Choose between these

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  • everyday

    fed

    the immediate fact is that someone has eaten

    not when Fed says nothing about reliability or nutritional quality.

  • warm

    nourished

    food supports health and wellbeing

    not when Nourished describes an outcome, not secure access.

  • professional

    provisioned

    supplies for a defined period are available

    not when Provisioned is temporary and does not describe household access.

  • professional

    self-sufficient

    a household or region produces what it needs

    not when Self-sufficiency is not required for food security.

  • professional

    well nourished

    current nutritional condition is the evidence

    not when A well-nourished person can still face unstable future access.

  • formal

    food-sufficient

    quantity is reliably adequate

    not when Sufficiency may ignore nutrition, safety, and personal preference.

Said against

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  • food-insecure
  • hungry
  • undernourished

It naturally appears in

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  • become food-secure

    The cooperative helped fifty households become food-secure.

  • food-secure community

    A food-secure community needs reliable transport as well as farms.

  • remain food-secure

    Emergency stores helped the island remain food-secure.

Where this comes from

The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.