Food Insecurity

Food insecurity is a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life. The United States Department of Agriculture reported that 12.3 percent of American households remain insecure meaning that 1 in 8 households in the United States had difficulty at some time during the year in providing enough food for all their family members. ( https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/new-data ) There are programs to help Americans who are food insecure such as the Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive( FINI ) Grant Program, The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program ( EFNEP ), and Agriculture and Food Research Initiative ( AFRI ). If there was anything that I could change it would be for the programs to be more known by the public. Before actually doing research, I didn’t know that there were even programs to help with food insecurity.