Sentences with phrase «with food insecurity»

Our children deserve the best possible chance at success, and that means that no child should have to struggle with food insecurity.

Childhood obesity continues to be a significant public health concern globally, even occurring simultaneously with food insecurity in many countries.

This partnership allows students with food insecurity to gain access to nutritious meals and engage in educational programming.

Today's students face a great deal of academic pressure, which when combined with food insecurity further underscores the need to improve access to breakfast to facilitate learning.

These findings are consistent with the food insecurity that has affected trade - dependent countries during recent food crises.

With food insecurity right in our communities, food waste is obviously a big moral problem.

Millions of American children — one in five — struggles with food insecurity, and that need does not go away when school isn't in session.

In this age of childhood obesity, we often forget the sobering fact that millions of American children live with food insecurity on a daily basis.

Access to wood fuels for cooking must be considered when formulating policy to deal with food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa, according to researchers who advocate expanding the effort to improve wood - fuel systems and make them more sustainable.

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.

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Children who are living with food insecurity during the first five years of their lives are more likely to lag behind in social, emotional, and cognitive development once they start kindergarten.

To help people become more aware of the challenges that come with food insecurity, the Y issued the Food Desert Challenge.

It's a story we brought you last year, when national data named Wisconsin as one of the states where college kids struggled most with food insecurity.

Based on a projected estimate of glacier area in 2050, it is thought that declining water availability will eventually threaten some 70 million people with food insecurity (Table 1)(17).

This means that if fathers eat high fat, fast food diets or are obese, or if they live in an area of the world with food insecurity where it's hard to get enough folate in their diets, or if they drink excessively or smoke, all of that information gets passed on to their offspring.

They learned, from data on the website of The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan that there are an estimated 82,570 residents living in Genesee County with food insecurities — nearly...

This is an infographic showing that more than 41 million Americans lived in households struggling with food insecurity in 2016.

This 25 % equates to the approximate amount allotted by SNAP to feed 1 meal to a family living with food insecurity.

It's already tackled all sorts of important issues, from incarceration with a muppet named Alex whose father is in jail, to the problem of hungry children in America with a muppet named Lily whose family deals with food insecurity.

Student - run kitchens then turn it into meals that meet safety standards that are then donated to those struggling with food insecurity.

By partnering with Feeding America, we are leveraging the largest domestic hunger - relief and food - rescue nonprofit network in the U.S. — to redistribute unsold food to families and individuals struggling with food insecurity.

Pittsburgh is in the midst of a foodie renaissance, and yet many there struggle with food insecurity.

Millions of American children — one in five — struggles with food insecurity, and that need does not abate during the holidays.

Read how pediatricians are now being asked to help spot the 16 million American kids living with food insecurity — and to get them the resources they need.

She became passionate about helping kids who were struggling with food insecurity and began collecting food and fundraising for a local food pantry.

Scrolling over each state to reveals the percent of households struggling with food insecurity or very low food security.

«You see the really tough choices people make when they are struggling with food insecurity,» Maehr said.

According to hunger - relief association Feeding America, over 10,000 toddlers on Long Island live with food insecurity.

For many, Thursday means a massive feast, but Thanksgiving also helps shed light on the 17 percent of Americans who struggle with food insecurity.

For those with food insecurity, that mostly meant carry - outs, corner stores and businesses such as drug stores that house partial markets.

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.

Millions of American children — one in five — struggles with food insecurity, and that need does not abate during the holidays.

After surveying 4,000 students attending ten community colleges, researchers found that more than half of all community college students struggle with food insecurity, although the problem exists at four - year institutions, too, for an estimated 20 percent of students.

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.

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.

These statistics include state - level data on poverty, participation in SNAP (3SquaresVT), TANF (Reach Up), Medicaid (Dr. Dynasaur), the Free and Reduced Price School Meals Program, and households with food insecurity.