food supply
Stockpile of edibles
Food supply refers to the total amount of food available to a population, region, or system.
It encompasses production, distribution, and access: The drought threatened the country's food supply.
The term often appears in discussions of agriculture, economics, and security: food supply chain, global food supply.
To ensure a steady food supply has been a central concern of human civilization.
- cropsCultivated plants for harvest
- staple cropsAgricultural dietary mainstays
- growing seasonTime crops can mature
- harvestGathering mature crops
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
grain · stockpile · grocery stores · farm to table · seed banks · irrigation · transportation · cold chain · emergency rations · bread · corn · sustainability · affordability · warehousing · organic farming · breadbasket · daily bread · allocation
- food systemshunger relief, farm-to-table, farm to table, sustainable farming, organic farming
- supplystock, stockpile, reserve, stores, inventory control
- suppliesstock, stockpile, stores, essentials, necessities
- military logisticsconvoy, materiel, requisitions, truck convoys, quartermasters
- Replenishingrestocking, refilling, reloading, topping off, refueling
- Mars colonizationterraforming, habitat, dome, outpost, rover
food supplyfamine
Severe food shortage
starvation · food scarcity · hunger · food insecurity · food crisis
food, supply, supplies, provisions, foods, seafood, supplied, supplier, supplying