Sentences with phrase «poor food access»

The effects of poor food access and poor nutrition were addressed in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nutrition Strategy and Action Plan 2000 - 2010 (referred to as NATSINSAP, for an overview see

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During his 14 years in office, Chávez tightened his grip on PDVSA while simultaneously pursuing programs aimed at improving access to health, education and food for poor Venezuelans.

Foodstocks are continuously piling up but so are the number of people without access to adequate food, those suffering from hunger and starvation, while in the meanwhile there has taken place a major decline in the quality of food available to the people, thanks to the excessive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, more so in the poorer countries as the more hazardous pesticides are banned in the rich countries and both exported to and dumped in the poor countries.

Claiming that one is so poor that one must have access to firearms to find food is simply not credible.

In poor urban areas, limited access to land for the production of food is another challenge.

Hence, in reality, access to diverse, nutritious, and fresh food is a challenge for the poor.

In some places, food loss due to poor storage or inadequate market access affects the ability of farmers to make a good living or even feed their families at times.

For the extreme poor having access to adequate food is often too costly.

And it works both ways: a la carte lines can mean that poor kids lose access to less - than - healthy but highly - kid - popular junk food like Flamin» Hot Cheetos and tater tots, and it can also mean that only kids with money can access better food, like yogurts, salads and fresh sandwiches that are only offered a la carte.

And though many poor neighborhoods are, indeed, food deserts — meaning that the people who live there don't have access to a well - stocked supermarket — many are not.

Aware that it may be a child's only access to decent food, poor districts frequently try to go the extra mile, serving meals all year and making sure no kid goes without.

Care deficiencies include a lack of care planning, poor case management, inadequate access to nutritional information or food at appropriate times; insufficient treatment review and blood glucose monitoring; poor understanding of medication and inadequate access to preventative screening services such as foot care and retinal screening..

Chairman Malcolm Bruce said: «Recent food price rises have greatly exacerbated the difficulties poor people face in accessing nourishing food.

«Just as the world's poor deserve access to food, water, shelter and essential medicines,» he said, «they also deserve access to innovation.»

The consequences of global warming may be lower food production, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, worse weather conditions and poor access to fresh water.

Poor communities have limited access to nutritious foods, increasing their risk for obesity and cancer.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan today the Taliban have created thousands of madrassas, where children from poor families with no access to education can receive food and what passes for learning (but what is in fact quite the opposite).

Suspecting that many of the problems he was seeing were due to poor nutrition, he traveled to more than a dozen isolated communities around the world where people did not have access to modern foods — sugar, white flour and commercial vegetable oils — to see whether or not they were healthy.

Advocates say they lower food costs, allowing poor people better access to french fries and other junk foods.

A closer look at the data reveals something very important — countries where people ate a large amount of foods containing refined carbohydrates also had lower median income levels and poor access to education.

2.1 by 2030 end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round

Important considerations here are that food security (and sovereignty) requires as much of the provisioning as possible to happen through localized production and consumption networks, that agriculture is based on organic, biologically diverse inputs, that the enormous waste of food characterizing the consumerist class is eliminated, and that for the extreme poor who do not have access to either the means of production or food itself, there needs to be rights - based schemes ensuring such access.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

At the sovereign nation level monitoring should encompass the internal disparities of the unfair impacts of climate change on the poor who by far have the smallest carbon footprint but will come to bear the brunt of harsh climate change impacts from vicious weather cycles to survival access to drinking water, food and shelter.

Urban agriculture may improve both food intake (improved access to a cheap source of proteins) and the quality of the food may improve (poor urban families involved in farming eat more fresh vegetables than other families in the same income category).

Food production in the city is in many cases a response of the urban poor to inadequate, unreliable and irregular access to food, and the lack of purchasing poFood production in the city is in many cases a response of the urban poor to inadequate, unreliable and irregular access to food, and the lack of purchasing pofood, and the lack of purchasing power.

Food prices in Harare, for example, rose 534 percent between 1991 and 1992 due to the removal of subsidies and price controls, spurring poor urban consumers to get access to food outside of market channels through home production or bartering (Tevera 19Food prices in Harare, for example, rose 534 percent between 1991 and 1992 due to the removal of subsidies and price controls, spurring poor urban consumers to get access to food outside of market channels through home production or bartering (Tevera 19food outside of market channels through home production or bartering (Tevera 1996).

Municipalities may facilitate marketing by poor urban farmers by providing them access to existing city markets or to assist them in the creation of farmers» markets (infrastructure development, licenses, control of product quality), authorize food box schemes and / or support the establishment of «green labels» for ecological grown and safe urban food.

Food access could be threatened by climate change impacts on productivity in important cereal - producing regions of the world which, along with other factors, could raise food prices and erode the ability of the poor in Africa to afford purchased fFood access could be threatened by climate change impacts on productivity in important cereal - producing regions of the world which, along with other factors, could raise food prices and erode the ability of the poor in Africa to afford purchased ffood prices and erode the ability of the poor in Africa to afford purchased foodfood.

The agreement further states that countries should weigh the impact of their emissions - mitigation efforts on «food security,» a byword for the access of poor people and nations to adequate food supplies.

If left unchecked, these trends could increase pressures on land access and food security in some of the world's poorest countries and communities

An epidemic of these proportions indicates poor nutrition on a vast level, whether through lack of knowledge about how to eat well or no access to healthy food.

The people who shouldn't have to are the poorest billion or two who live on a dollar or two a day, hardly use any ff anyway, and mostly have uncertain access to reliable sources of food and potable water.

It would «cause double - digit electricity price increases in 40 states» and «would prevent struggling communities from accessing reliable and affordable fuel sources, which could eventually lead to poor families choosing between putting healthy food on the table or turning their heater on in the winter.»

People and communities experiencing social exclusion, unstable housing, low income, food insecurity, unemployment and poor working conditions, weak social safety nets and lack of access to health, social and legal services are shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics.

With 70 years of experience in more than 90 countries, Oxfam takes on the big issues that keep people poor: inequality, discrimination, and unequal access to resources including food, water, and land.

Our vision is to improve the livelihoods of the poor by reducing the health risks associated with animal sourced food and by improving nutrition and market access for smallholders.

• Conference recognises that there is much poorer access to affordable and healthy food in rural and remote areas, and that far too many children nationally go to bed hungry at night, especially children in rural and remote areas and especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

As expected, when compared with participants living with others, those living alone were more likely to report (any) depressive symptoms when living in neighbourhoods with poorer access to civic / institutional destinations, retail, food / eating outlets, public transport stops and health clinics / services, lower levels of crowdedness and fewer people on the streets (table 4).

This loss has constrained access to nutritious and fresh sources of food, resulting in poor health and the replacement of healthy traditional foods with western - style foods that are energy - dense and brimming with ingredients such as refined sugar, salt and fat.

Poor nutrition is a major determinant of excess morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 1 contributing to over 16 % of the burden of disease.2 In this issue of the Journal (page 549), consistent with the «economics of food choice» theory, 3 Brimblecombe and O'Dea report that the diet of a remote Aboriginal community was high in energy - dense, nutrient - poor foods — the cheapest options to satisfy hunger.4 This energy — cost differential restricts access to healthy food, and helps explain the persistently poor dietary patterns and deplorable health status of remote Indigenous communities.4 Placing nutrition issues in an economic framework highlights the investment required to improve Indigenous nutrition.4 But what has been learned to date about where resources should be direcPoor nutrition is a major determinant of excess morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 1 contributing to over 16 % of the burden of disease.2 In this issue of the Journal (page 549), consistent with the «economics of food choice» theory, 3 Brimblecombe and O'Dea report that the diet of a remote Aboriginal community was high in energy - dense, nutrient - poor foods — the cheapest options to satisfy hunger.4 This energy — cost differential restricts access to healthy food, and helps explain the persistently poor dietary patterns and deplorable health status of remote Indigenous communities.4 Placing nutrition issues in an economic framework highlights the investment required to improve Indigenous nutrition.4 But what has been learned to date about where resources should be direcpoor foods — the cheapest options to satisfy hunger.4 This energy — cost differential restricts access to healthy food, and helps explain the persistently poor dietary patterns and deplorable health status of remote Indigenous communities.4 Placing nutrition issues in an economic framework highlights the investment required to improve Indigenous nutrition.4 But what has been learned to date about where resources should be direcpoor dietary patterns and deplorable health status of remote Indigenous communities.4 Placing nutrition issues in an economic framework highlights the investment required to improve Indigenous nutrition.4 But what has been learned to date about where resources should be directed?

Overcrowded and poor quality housing in many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and limited access to fresh and healthy food, are also major contributors to health inequality.