Food security

from or when I will be able to eat again. According to the article FAO Committee on World Food Security Meets on Hunger Challenges states that, in the world today, eight hundred and forty two million people go hungry every day. World hunger is worst in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America (“Know Your World: Facts About World Hunger & Poverty”). In the United States forty to fifty percent of our food gets wasted every year, but we still have forty eight point one million Americans who do…

Through education, new programs, and policy the victims of food deserts will become empowered and a new way of life will prevail. Food deserts symbolize the current social –economic climate in our country today. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, a food desert is an area where urban residents live one mile or rural residents live ten miles or more from a supermarket or large grocery store and where the poverty rate is twenty percent or the medium family income is at…

between hunger and food insecurity to further prove that many in our society remain uninformed of how poverty and hunger coexist in our society. Moreover, how the majority of our poverty is caused by the lack of awareness of the role individual choice plays in our own country. Nestle goes on to define the difference between hunger and poverty as, "...hunger studies distinguish 'hunger' from 'food insecurity' and 'malnutrition.' Food insecurity is a condition of inadequate access to food or to…

issues such as food insecurity and malnutrition, but has been dominated by a motive of promoting efficiency and profit. The rise of the green revolution brought about perpetuating capitalism , through industrialized everything around the farm in order to strip power away from consumers, and to allow corporations to control . Unlike the green revolution, the rise of biotech industry is consumer , and is not only able to mass produce, but it’s able to fully capture the natural process of food…

This past weekend I had the chance to return to my friend’s church to volunteer. I helped with collecting donating food from church members, and helping serve the dinner that evening. This dinner was advertised around the surrounding community by the church members and there was a great mix of participants. Those ranging from mild food insecurity to those that are pretty well off, upper middle class. It was interesting to watch the interaction between these various diverse socioeconomic groups.…

water shortages caused by global warming have led to further declining hygiene and sanitation, a spread of water borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid and a rise in diarrheal and skin diseases and other water related conditions. The effects of food insecurity have been well documented in the developing world. It is well known that lack of nutrition at a very early age affects children’s height and intellectual development as well as resulting in low productivity in adults. Malnutrition has…

Food insecurity, described by the USDA as “the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food,” is a worldwide epidemic that has recently been more brought to light. Poverty-stricken families all over the world continue to face the reality of not knowing where their next meal is coming from. Even today, 1 in 6 Americans remain food insecure. 1 in 10 of the adults served by Feeding America, an organization aimed at reducing food insecurity, is…

change; ’Increase heat stress, floods, drought and increased frequency of intense storms”( The Lancet, 2015). Who. int (2015) describes drought as a period in the climate cycle caused by lack of rainfall that result in lack of water that then leads to food shortages. The populations mostly affected by this climate induced disaster are; people of low social economic back ground, the elderly, children and the disabled. This assay looks at some of the adaptation taken in Kenya in response to…

favour or against GM crops because of their implications for smallholder farmers in the Global South are numerous and conflicting. While advocates of biotechnology claim that GM crops are necessary for the alleviation of poverty and the eradication of food insecurity, sceptics declare that the lack of adaptation to smallholder needs and the failure to consider the various contexts in which GM crops are actually introduced, are actually threatening the livelihoods of the world’s most vulnerable.…

There are artists out there that commit their lives to the involvement of changing the how people view their environment and the artists shown here have done it in a way that involves the public in the artwork itself. Nicole Fournier is an artist, activist and founder of InTerreArt which has exhibited her art for more than 20 years. Nicole’s best known work involves the concept of incorporating art, the environment, performance and agriculture called Live Dining. The Live Dining Project is the…