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
      • 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
      • 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
    • 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

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