What Does Chronic Food Shortages Mean?
Chronic food shortages are a form of food insecurity that occurs when all three of the basic conditions for food security are not met. These three conditions are adequacy, availability and access. Unlike transitory food shortages, which primarily occur as a result of natural disasters that hamper a population’s ability to produce food, chronic food shortages occur because a population does not have the basic ability to produce food, even under normal circumstances.
