Sentences with phrase «food insecurity across»

Global warming is already causing droughts, floods and food insecurity across the globe.

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For more than 30 years, food banks across the country have worked to address food insecurity in Canadian households; however, keeping pace with the growing need for services continues to strain resources.

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.

Every person exuded a fire in their belly about playing their part to help alleviate food insecurity, whether they be a plant pathologist like myself, an economist, a social researcher or a nutritionist, to name just a few of the vocations I came across.

Food insecurity is similarly correlated with cognitive delays, and rising in incidence across the country — more than 17 million American children consistently lack access to healthy, nutritious meals.

During the 2017 Maryland General Assembly session, Maryland Hunger Solutions and our partners across the state are working to reduce poverty and food insecurity by advocating for the passage of the following bills:

During a long stretch of months when many students across the nation are at risk of food insecurity and summer learning loss, summer learning programs are becoming increasingly important and prevalent.

Last fall, UNC professor Maureen Berner visited food banks across Belgium to learn how they handle issues of poverty and food insecurity.

In fact, war in the Congo has directly resulted in crisis level food insecurity (= increased demand for meat from killing forest animals including bonobos), countless numbers of displaced people who pose added burdens on demand for food, rife levels of corruption and mismanagement, immeasurable but vast numbers of weapons and munitions distributed across the country, large - scale break down of traditional taboos that may have locally protected some populations of bonobos, and much, much more.

In all 15 million people face food insecurity in eight nations across the Sahel, a region that is still recovering from drought and a food crisis of 2010.

Across Africa, land grabs are exacerbating food insecurity on a continent where women farmers account for up to 80 percent of food production.

May 13, 2015 — National Commission on Hunger Kate Breslin, Schuyler Center's President & CEO, testified before the National Commission on Hunger with recommendations for using existing programs to combat hunger and food insecurity in New York and across the country.