a) Chronic food insecurity is a long terms or persistent inability to meet minimum food requirements and is usually associated with structural, underlying contextual factors that do not change quickly, such as: local climate, soil type, local governance system, public infrastructure, land tenure, inter-ethnic relations, education level, etc.
b) Transitory food insecurity is a short-term or temporary inability to meet minimum food requirements which is mostly associated with dynamic factors that can change quickly such as: infectious diseases, natural disasters, displacement, change of market functioning, level of indebtedness, migration, etc.
So, to overcome food insecurity which caused from chronic or transitory food insecurity needed proper treatment and appropriate program.