Food security can seem complex, but it really isn’t: do you have enough food on a daily basis, is it nutritious, and is food available and accessible during and after a disaster?
For example, even if food is present in your community after a disaster, people may not be able to access it because they do not have enough money, and we all know that the price of food and other goods always goes up after a disaster. So, people will eat less, which can be very harmful for children, the elderly, the sick and pregnant women especially.
We also know that because economies in the Pacific are becoming increasingly monetized, people are more inclined to work in wage-based jobs rather than in fishing and agriculture to the extent that they did 20 to 30 years ago. And this means that there is less food produced locally, and thus less food available after a disaster.
