Our view is that many countries in the world are poor and they're food insecure.

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"Food insecure" means all household members did not always have access to enough food for an active, healthy life.

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Yet in our own country, one in seven homes and one in five children in the United States are labeled as food insecure.

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According to a 2009 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 14.7% of American households were "food insecure" at least some time during that year.

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It is believed the money for Afghanistan would be used to stabilise the most insecure areas, with more policing, emergency food and medicine, and thousands of job and training opportunities.

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