Post-Disaster Food & Nutrition Security: The Disaster Food Security Framework (DFSF)

The United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) defines food security as “access by all
people at all times to enough food for an
active, healthy life” (1). Following a disaster,
communities and individual households may
experience a disruption in food security.
Disaster studies have measured food insecurity
primarily following events such as hurricanes
and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the
United States. Individual households are often
most heavily affected. This is clear in studies of
households displaced by Hurricanes Katrina
and Harvey, in which participants were asked
whether they had enough money for food the
family needed.