Sentences with phrase «from food insecurity»

A high proportion of children in the United States are overweight, suffer from food insecurity, and live in households facing maternal stressors.

These numbers do not include local populations in host communities who — themselves suffering from food insecurity and limited access to basic social services and infrastructure — would also benefit from humanitarian interventions under the agency's inclusive support strategy.

F F Enhancing biodiversity through the use of sustainable agricultural practices can protect communities from food insecurity associated with both crop loss and decreased yield.

In many areas, climate change increases the already high risks to people living in poverty or to people suffering from food insecurity or inadequate water supplies.

The reason points to students suffering from food insecurity and caloric deficits while studying on a budget.

It is estimated that one in ten children in the US suffers from food insecurity meaning that they often do not get enough food to eat.

At Cobb Middle School in Frisco, Texas, parent and school leaders heard the needs within their community and coordinated food drives for families of children who suffer from food insecurity while away from school.

One in six students in Massachusetts suffers from food insecurity — they worry about where their next meal will come from.

Food Security in a Backpack Boston Globe, 5/26/15 «What if Massachusetts committed to ensuring that every child suffering from food insecurity went home each weekend with a backpack of meals?

To date, students from some two dozen public and private schools have participated in projects focused on everything from food insecurity to neighborhood walkability.

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That's a big improvement from 2014, when 14 percent of households were food insecure, and from 2011, when the food insecurity rate neared 15 percent in the wake of the Great Recession.

The organization found that the government officials have gained massive personal fortunes from arms deals, oil and gambling to fuel one of the world's deadliest conflicts that has been happening since 2013 andhas left tens of thousands dead and almost half the country with food insecurity.

«Food insecurity is a critical and growing issue for many Australians, with too many families living hand - to - mouth or not knowing where their next meal will come from,» Praestiin said.

Weather extremes caused by climate change may soon lead to food insecurity around the world, according to a paper from t...

The health effects of food insecurity in children can vary from developmental delays to behavioral issues to an increased risk of obesity due to eating highly processed, calorie dense foods.

Highlights from last year's summit included developing school breakfast menus, communication training sessions, and food and nutrition insecurity problem solving; there were lots of opportunities to get moving, including a dance - off and a sing - a-long, and of course there were visits from NFL players from the Dallas Cowboys, the Washington Redskins, the Carolina Panthers, and more.

Results from the pilot program will be offered to Feed the Children partners to identify ways to better solve summer food insecurity that have impact, are far - reaching and cost - effective.

When there is a drought she and her children will suffer from malnutrition as a result of the food insecurity which has been irradiated in the US with thanks to the commercial farming which your «Crunchy mamas» shun.

A new white paper from FRAC reviews the latest research from academic, government, and other sources on the harmful impacts of poverty, food insecurity, and poor nutrition on the health and well - being of children, adults, and older adults.

Check out this new report reviews existing and emerging opportunities to document food insecurity screening, assessment, intervention, and billing for each part of a patient visit using discrete codes and language from standardized EHR medical vocabularies.

Human milk provides reliable and sustainable nutrition for optimal growth of infants, while protecting the infant from infection and food insecurity in risky environments.

This toolkit, from FRAC and the AARP Foundation, offers practical tips and examples to help organizations of all sizes address food insecurity in all types of communities with a goal of increasing senior SNAP participation.

This interactive map shows household food insecurity rates, by state, from 2014 - 2016.

According to him, the large yearly fluctuations in the production of maize and rice witnessed and the sharp increase in the import of rice from 384,400 metric tonnes in 2009 to 645,000 metric tonnes in 2013 attested to deepening food insecurity in the country.

A research team from the Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente, Colorado, designed a study to learn more about food insecurity and older adults.

«During the past three years of armed conflict, Yemenis have been continuously exposed to serious harm and trauma, including air strikes, threats and attacks from armed groups, forced disappearances, torture, a cholera epidemic, and food and job insecurity,» said Farea Al - Muslimi, a prominent Yemeni scholar and chairman of the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies.

«The observations that Medicaid and WIC participation is associated with lower odds of both food insecurity and cost - related medication underuse suggest that there may be important «spill - over» effects from programs that target food insecurity or cost - related medication underuse, by freeing up available resources,» adds Dr. Berkowitz.

Activist groups that routinely assert that American children suffer malnutrition are actually measuring something they term «food insecurity,» a condition that usually results more from poor household management than from scarce resources.

Retrieved October 10, 2016, from http://hechingerreport.org/at-a-school-in-brooklyns-poorest-neighborhood-literacy-is-up-and-disciplinary-problems-are-down/ In Rowan - Salisbury Schools, the district tackled food insecurity over the summer by delivering meals to families utilizing a renovated bus — affectionately called «the Yum - Yum Bus.»

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GREENFIELD, Ind., May 24, 2017 — Elanco Animal Health, a division of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), today announced that it received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide sustainable development solutions to address food insecurity in East African countries.

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.

But how often do we see successful permaculture programs in the regions that suffer most from drought, famine, conflict or food insecurity?

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.

Unprecedented efforts by governments, humanitarian and development agencies to collaborate in order to find ways to move away from reliance on short - term emergency responses to food insecurity to longer - term development - oriented strategies that involve closer partnerships with governments, are also increasing (see food insecurity case study below and SARPN - http://www.sarpn.org/ - for several case studies and examples; see also Table 9.2 for other possible adaptation options).

It considers challenges we collectively face: from the pressures of population growth, climate change, urbanization, migration, and conflict to food, energy, and water insecurity.

Droughts and flooding will cause food insecurity and mass migration, destabilizing the geopolitical situation, while American military installations face impacts from sea level rise.

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

Food insecurity still persists in the United States; an estimated 14 percent of American households (17.4 million), were food «insecure» in 2014, meaning they had difficulty at some point during the year providing enough food for their families due to a lack of resources, according to a recent report from the U.S. Department of AgricultFood insecurity still persists in the United States; an estimated 14 percent of American households (17.4 million), were food «insecure» in 2014, meaning they had difficulty at some point during the year providing enough food for their families due to a lack of resources, according to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Agricultfood «insecure» in 2014, meaning they had difficulty at some point during the year providing enough food for their families due to a lack of resources, according to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Agricultfood for their families due to a lack of resources, according to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

For example, government policies encouraging expansion of biofuel production from maize have recently contributed to higher food prices for many, increasing food insecurity for populations already at risk, and threatening the livelihoods of those like the urban poor who are struggling with the inherent risks of poverty.

3) indirect impacts mediated through societal systems, such as undernutrition and mental illness from altered agricultural production and food insecurity, stress and undernutrition and violent conflict caused by population displacement, economic losses due to widespread «heat exhaustion» impacts on the workforce, or other environmental stressors, and damage to health care systems by extreme weather events.

Not only will climate change directly impact forests and the other natural systems that maintain critical water - related ecosystem services, climate impacts will be experienced largely through the medium of water — melting glaciers, changing rainfall patterns, increased water stress and drought from higher temperatures, more severe storms — resulting in increased water and food insecurity, and constraints on economic opportunity.

Recurring droughts, combined with migration from conflict zones, are making chronic food insecurity worse, warned UN regional humanitarian coordinator Robert Piper.

In short, it was doing everything right: reducing food miles, staying away from petroleum inputs, sequestering carbon in the soil, reducing landfill by composting, fighting inequality and food insecurity.

Major vulnerabilities induced from climatic hazards include human displacement, drinking water shortages, reduced agricultural productivity and food insecurity, loss of livelihoods, health hazards, energy crises, and disasters.

Participants at today's high - level Hikma Hours session were of the view that research and technology and strong government cooperation were key to ensuring that future generations in the Arab world did not suffer from food and water insecurity.

The report, which is the second installment of a three - part series of scientific updates from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sharply warns that climate change poses the greatest risks to the most vulnerable populations within all nations, and a potentially existential risk to poorer countries already struggling with food insecurity and civil conflict, as well as low - lying small island states.

In his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glaciers.

These stresses arise from, for example, current climate hazards, poverty and unequal access to resources, food insecurity, trends in economic globalisation, conflict, and incidence of diseases such as HIV / AIDS.

There is some evidence that children younger than nine months have negative consequences when their mothers work full time.9 In addition, there is some evidence from a six - city retrospective cohort study with cross-sectional surveys at urban medical centers, that terminating or reducing TANF benefits by sanctions, or decreasing benefits because of changes in income or expenses is associated with a greater probability that young children, under age three, will experience food insecurity and hospitalization.10