This appalling rate
of food insecurity shows that our Federal and state governments are in breach of their obligations to ensure that all Australians, and especially the most disadvantaged, enjoy the fundamental human right to adequate and culturally appropriate food, guaranteed by Article 10 of the United Nations Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Not exact matches
For children, research
shows a link between
food insecurity and lower health status, low birth weight, anemia, more frequent colds and stomachaches, asthma, developmental risk, mental health problems, and poor educational performance — all
of which have health and economic consequences in the short and long terms.
Not surprisingly, research
shows that household
food insecurity is a strong predictor
of higher health care utilization and increased health care costs.
Results
of this earlier study
showed that participants used the recipes for an average
of 2.8 meals a week and this led to a decrease in their
food insecurity, total groceries expenditures, and body mass index.
These maps
show the concentrations
of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and areas
of food insecurity in February 2017.
The findings, Chilton and colleagues say,
show that trauma and chronic stress are a largely overlooked part
of the picture
of why one in five American households with young children live with
food insecurity.
Furthermore, the application
of a validated diabetes risk prediction algorithm in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey in Canada
showed that among the individual level SES variables, such as lower household income and
food insecurity, predicted a higher diabetes risk in women but not in men (97).
And then parallel to all
of that, there are decades
of underfunding, so they live in a context with a housing crisis, they live in a context with... research
shows between 50 to 72 per cent
food insecurity where that's measured by them skipping meals or missing meals etcetera.»
Research has
shown that warming temperatures in the ocean may be increasing the chances
of failed rains in East Africa, worsening droughts and
food insecurity.
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.
The report
shows that, in 2017, almost 124 million people faced levels
of acute
food insecurity or worse.