Food Insecurity Homework Create Journal Entry Journal Details Journal Instructio
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Food Insecurity Homework Create Journal Entry Journal Details Journal Instructions INDEX Food insecurity is composed of a variety of elements: limited availability of food, nutritionally inadequate, unsafe, socially acceptable acquisition, availability access, stability, utilization, malnutrition. Pick the one that might be the biggest concern in your own life, whether you consider yourself to be or ever to have been food insecure. If you really can't think of any way that any of these affect you, please pick the one that you think might be the biggest problem in your community. For that element, describe how it affects people and what some of the solutions are that could be provided from within the CSUSB community. Be sure to also post your recipe on the discussion board.Explanation / Answer
.“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.Risk and prevalence of food insecurity and use of food security resources are important but incompletely understood factors in immigrant health.Food insecurity is part of a continuum that includes hunger (food deprivation), malnutrition (deficiencies, imbalances, or excesses of nutrients), and famine. Long-term lack of food security eventually becomes hunger, defined by the USDA as “an individual-level physiological condition that may result from food insecurity.” On a population level, extreme lack of food security becomes famine. The United Nations rarely declares famine status, even in cases of long-term food insecurity, since its definition of famine is quite specific – famine is declared only when “at least 20 percent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 percent, and the death rate exceeds two persons per day per 10,000 persons.” F Malnutrition can be caused by food insecurity, but can also be caused by poor health, poor care for children, or an unhealthy environment.
various political-agricultural practices contribute to food insecurity worldwide. These include substituting commodity crops for food crops (e.g., growing corn instead of vegetables) and heavy exportation of food crops at the expense of food security of the exporting country. F F In addition, the recent demand for biofuels, currently produced primarily from corn and soy, has further decreased the amount of viable arable land being used for food production.
The United States overproduces commodity crops (particularly corn, wheat, and soy) in part due to government subsidization; healthful food and sustainable agriculture have not been historically promoted in US food and farming policy. The FAO’s definition of food security includes a provision describing access to “nutritious” food; however, in many low-income areas, it is easier to access cheap, unhealthful food (such as fast food), often produced primarily from commodity crops. FIn addition, the US exports a high proportion of its commodity crops to the rest of the world. For example, in 2010, over 53 percent of all corn exports in the world were from the US. The exportation of these commodity crops affects farmers in the rest of the world – especially small farmers with limited resources. A large influx of commodity crops from the US can affect local food security, as small farmers cannot compete with less expensive (subsidized) US-produced agricultural products.