At the same time, the problem of hunger in this country still persists. Food security is defined as access to enough food for an active, healthy life.
Food insecurity occurs when access is limited or uncertain.
Food insecure households were 10.3 percent of all households in 1995 and 10.2 percent in 1998. Some improvement in more severe range of food insecurity . Evidence of hunger was found in 3.9 percent of all households in 1995 and 3.6 percent in 1998. Substantial numbers of people in households in which at least some members experienced hunger . In 1998, nearly 10 million people, over a third of them children, lived in such households.