Distribution of food insecure households in Brazil in 2023, by gender

The source considers three types of food insecurity:

• Mild food insecurity, where there is evidence of concern about access to food in the future and the quality of food in the household is already compromised and residents or adults in the family have adopted strategies to maintain a minimum amount of food for their members;
• Moderate food insecurity means that residents, especially adults in the family, had to live with quantitative food restrictions during the reference period;
• Severe food insecurity means that, in addition to the adult members, the children, if present, also experience severe food deprivation, which may reach its most acute expression, hunger.