The impact of poor food security on people in contrasting places
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- The impact of poor food security on people in contrasting places
- USA
- 2013, 14% households and 49mil suffered food insecurity
- Causes
- High unemployment and under-employment
- Stagnant, falling wages
- Food Stamps and Nutrition Assistance Programmes have been cut due to recession
- Causes
- Dimensions of hunger
- Hunger and poverty
- Increasing number living below poverty line
- 54% of supported families have at leat 1 unemployed
- Child hunger
- 15 million children face hunger, cheap unhealthy food -> academic low achievement affects future prospects
- Senior Citizens
- Mobility issues, many faced with buying food or medicine
- Ethnic groups
- Black and Latino pop. disproportionately affected
- Hunger and poverty
- Urban Food Insecurity
- 37% of people in the Bronx food insecure
- Bronx is food desert (no grocery stores lots of fast food)
- WIC provides food vouchers, education and health referrals
- TANF helps families below poverty line
- 2013, 14% households and 49mil suffered food insecurity
- Kenya
- Background
- East Africa, Pop. 44 million, half below poverty line
- 10 million people suffer chronic food insecurity because:
- issues with access and distribution
- tribal divisions
- displacement of farm workers to urban areas
- 2 million rely on food assistance
- still there is significant exportation of land to Qatar, UAE etc.
- Urban food insecurity
- Lack of space in slum areas for urban farming
- Led to 'sack gardening' -> cultivated vegetables in sacks
- Difficulties
- Challenges finding contamination free sites
- Kibera still highly aid dependent -> WFP provide 1 mil school children with their 1 meal/day
- Kenya still fourth largest food aid recipient
- Difficulties
- Led to 'sack gardening' -> cultivated vegetables in sacks
- Lack of space in slum areas for urban farming
- Background
- USA
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