Sentences with phrase «areas of food insecurity»

These maps show the concentrations of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and areas of food insecurity in February 2017.

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The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

In fact, those living in remote areas are at greater risk of food insecurity than their urban counterparts as, on average, food is up to 50 per cent more expensive in remote communities,» he stated.

COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND — The University of Maryland Office of Community Engagement and the University of Maryland Alumni Association will partner with Food Recovery Network (FRN), Amp Your Good, and the #GiveHealthy Movement to alleviate food insecurity in Prince George's County and provide food supplies to areas devastated by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and MaFood Recovery Network (FRN), Amp Your Good, and the #GiveHealthy Movement to alleviate food insecurity in Prince George's County and provide food supplies to areas devastated by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Mafood insecurity in Prince George's County and provide food supplies to areas devastated by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Mafood supplies to areas devastated by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.

«There were a lot of opportunities to address topics of food insecurity and hunger in the area, it was a positive discussion.»

A priority area for S&T is the agricultural sector because of the periodic droughts and food insecurity that continue to plague many African countries.

Our topic under the umbrella of food insecurity is the existence of food deserts in both rural and urban areas within the U.S. and how they compare and / or contrast in their causes and potential...

For states and localities where universal access is unrealistic, an expansion of the community eligibility program, which allows schools and districts in low - income areas to serve free breakfast and lunch to all students without collecting applications, would be an interim step to consider.44 Making free meals universal would ensure that all students experiencing food insecurity have access to healthy, nutritious meals; end the stigma surrounding school lunch; and eliminate administrative barriers to accessing the program.

In urban and rural areas, wage - labor - dependent poor households that are net buyers of food are expected to be particularly affected due to food price increases, including in regions with high food insecurity and high inequality (particularly in Africa), although the agricultural self - employed could benefit.

This can subsequently «contribute to existing problems — including food insecurity, malnutrition, poverty, the spread of disease, rapid urbanization, and political instability — in areas of the world that already struggle with some of these issues.»

Through well - chosen quotes, and stunning photographs, this largely visual presentation documents the realities and role of burgeoning human numbers on a broad variety of important areas including the destruction of wildlife and natural systems, air and water pollution, food insecurity and climate change.

However, growing urban poverty and food insecurity, high costs of green open space and solid waste management, the need for recreational opportunities in the urban and peri-urban area, tend to modify thinking of planners and authorities and a more «agricultural» approach (farmers as povery reduction strategy; farmers as waste reusers; farmers as landscape managers and providers of recreational services, etcetera).

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Table 1: Based on a best guess of glacier area in 2050, this projection shows the number of people in the Himalayan area who could be threatened by food insecurity due to changes in the Himalayan glaciers.

Remember how, that though we can't specifically peg it entirely on climate change it is representative of the type of things to come in areas of high food insecurity?

The primary dilemma in many areas already struggling with food insecurity, is that those most severely impacted resort to farming practices that worsen the situation out of desperation.