HLTB41H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter CHAPTER 13: Health Promotion, Great Recession, Child Poverty
CHAPTER 13: FOOD INSECURITY
-Food Insecurity: inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints!
-Experienced by 13% of Canadian households—increasing in recent years!
-Food security is considered a determinant of health—but also a basic human right as
illustrated during the 2012 visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to
Canada!
-Food security is a determinant of: life, health, dignity, justice, and sustainable development—
when you think of people who are food insecure it is more than just their health that is
affected !
Understanding Food Security, Food Insecurity and Hunger
-Food Security: when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to
maintain a healthy and active life !
-Definition derives from the 1996 World Food Summit—aims at providing healthy and safe
food for all through three pillars:
1. Sustainable Food Systems
2. Physical and Economic Access to Food
3. Appropriate Food Use
-food insecurity as experienced in higher-income countries, results from social conditions and
policies that limit the financial resources available to a household to purchase adequate,
nutritious food!
-Is aligned with the economic access component of food security !
-The comprehensive definition of food insecurity tailored from the Food and Agriculture
Organization definition of food security above is “the inability to acquire or consume an
adequate diet quality or sufficient quantity of food int e socially acceptable ways, or
the uncertainty that one will be able to do so due to income constraints”
-Household and individual food insecurity differ from community food security intuit they are
about income-related food access and to the broader food system !
-Similarly, Individual and household FI are linked with societal issues of food security and
sustainable food production and distribution!
-Important to recognize that globalized food systems, the international trade of food
commodities, the agri-food industry, agricultural policies that support or disadvantage local
domestic producers, supply management of the food staples by marketing boards, grocery
distribution systems, processed food marketing and distribution, school food policies and
labour protections for agricultural workers are just some of the factors that make up a
complex web of supra-individual and household factors that create or diminish conditions of
individual and household food insecurity !
-Has been argued that food insecurity policy—policy initiatives directed at supporting
individuals and families who lack access to food because of financial constraints—is not the
flip side of food security policy—policy that aims at providing healthy and safe food for all!
-WHO Commission on the SDOH explains the difference bw inequities that are unfortunate
and those that are unjust !
-Outcomes that are unjust are avoidable bc of an inequitable distribution of social conditions!
-Relative poverty: relates to both material and social deprivation—a deprivation of resources
required for a dignified participation in society !
-Canada recognized the right to food as a fundamental human right in 1948 when it signed
and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
-Graham Riches speaks most eloquently in Canada about the “right to food” as being a way
to conceptualize our approaches to food insecurity !
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Document Summary
Food insecurity: inadequate or insecure access to food due to nancial constraints. Experienced by 13% of canadian households increasing in recent years. Food security is considered a determinant of health but also a basic human right as illustrated during the 2012 visit of the un special rapporteur on the right to food to. Food security is a determinant of: life, health, dignity, justice, and sustainable development when you think of people who are food insecure it is more than just their health that is a ected. Food security: when all people at all times have access to su cient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life. De nition derives from the 1996 world food summit aims at providing healthy and safe food for all through three pillars: sustainable food systems, physical and economic access to food, appropriate food use.
