Food Security Flashcards
What is food security?
- Having access to dietary needs
- Security
- Sovereignty
- Safety (Safe to eat and nutritious)
“All people at all times have physical social and economic access to sufficient, safe andnutritious food that meets their dietary needs and good preferences for an actve and healthy life.
On a global scale, how do you think Canada compares to the rest of the world?
Canada falls into the top 10 globally.
How do you think food insecurity in Quebec compares across provences? Amongst population based on SES race/ethnicity, education?
Quebec has a food insicurty persentage of 13.1%
Do you think food security impacts long-term health? If so, how?
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What is good sovereignty?
“The right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable method, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems”
Prevelance of Household Food insecurity across Canadian Provences.
What factors are taken into consideration when compiling the Global Food Security Index.
- Agricultural
- Import tariffs
- Food waster
- Protine quality
- Corruption
- Supply chain
What is Canadas strength in food security?
Safety. Safty of distribution and free of contamination.
What is Canadas biggest weakness in terms of food security?
Food Waste. Followed by affordability.
Where in Canada is there the highest percentage of food insecurity?
In Nunavut and the Northwest territories, the prevalence of household food insecurity rose to the hight levels obeserved since monitoring began in 2005.
Nunavut: 46.8%
Northwest territories: 24.1%
Statistics on child food insecurity in the Northern Canadian Territories.
Statistics on food insecurity of people under 18 across Canadian Provences.
Statistics on Racial Food insecurty
Statistics on homeownership Food insecurity