1Google Image hunger

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Food Insecurity

• Face of Hunger in Canada.

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What is Food Insecurity

• Food insecurity is the term used to describe
  hunger in develop countries, it is the inability
  to acquire or consume an adequate diet quality or
  sufficient quantity of food in socially
  acceptable ways

(McIntyre 2003).
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Statistic on Hunger

• The Heart Health Coalition of BC (1997)
  reported that one in six British Columbians
  live below the Statistics Canada Poverty
  Line.
• This includes 21 of children under the
  age of 18.
• Eighteen percent of families live in low
  income household. (BC vital statistics, 2003).
• The 2001 statistics Canada, National
  Population Health Survey ( NPHS), shows a
  strong causal relationship between income
  and hunger

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We Need To Change Food Insecurity

• To prevent malnutrition .
• To prevent illnesses such as
• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Cardio- Vascular Disease

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Appreciative Inquiry

• Changing Food Insecurity to Food Security.

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• Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is about searching for
  the best in people, their organizations, and the
  world around them.
• 4 D-Cycle discovery, dream, design, and destiny.

Cooperidder and Whitney (2002)
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Appreciative Inquiry
Check bylaws for food policy and food
security

• 4 D cycle

Maintain food security by Evaluation and
re-evaluation.
Form food council and envision change to food
insecurity.
Implement strategies for change to food
insecurity.
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Food Security

• Food security exists when-
• All people at all times have physical
  and economic access to sufficient, safe and
  nutritious foods to meet their dietary needs
  and food preferences for an active healthy
  life.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the
  United Nations . 1996.

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• There are three strategies to eliminate food
  insecurity.
• Emergency and Efficiency
• Transitional
• System Re-design

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Strategies

• Efficiency and emergency strategies
• Making minor changes to existing practices that
  are the fastest to implement, such as food
  drives, banks and coupons. Also supporting
  charitable food program.

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Efficiency and Emergency Strategies

• Food drives Food banks

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• Transitional strategies focus on the replacement
  of one practice by another or the development of
  a parallel process.
• For example, community gardens and kitchens, food
  buying clubs, community supported agriculture,
  community economic development.

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Transitional Strategies
Transitional Strategies

• Establishing community kitchens and gardens,

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• System re-design strategies are base on
  restructuring of both the roots and solution of
  the problem. There is a focus on integrating
  systems- food, health, and agriculture.
• Food policy is a key component of system
  re-design.

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• What is food policy?
• Food policy is any decision, program or project
  that is endorsed by a government agency,
  business, or organization which effects how food
  is produced, processed, distributed, purchased,
  protected and disposed.

The City of Vancouver Food Policy Council
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• Food Policy Continue.
• Food policy operates at the global, national,
  provincial, regional, local and institutional
  levels.

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• Food Policy Council
• A food policy council includes individuals from
  all aspects of a local food system.

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System Redesign Strategies

• Food Policy includes
• Laws regulating the use of production contracts
  by corporate meat and poultry operation .
• Food ingredients labeling,
• Municipal composting program,
• Agricultural land preservation,
• Making breastfeeding a societal norm,
• Establishing green taxes to foster environmental
  sustainability,
• Promoting adequate incomes for
• consumers and producers.

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System Redesign Strategies

• Agricultural land preservation

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System Redesign Strategies

• Making breastfeeding a societal norm through
  education and encouragement.

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Nurses can help promote food security by
Nurses Food Security

• 1. Being aware of issues involved in eradicating
  food insecurity.
• 2. Supporting initiatives such as UNICEFs Ten
  Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and
  Baby-Friendly Hospitals.
• 3. Lobby against commercial pressure to formula
  feed.

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Nurses Food Security

• 4. Support groups lobbying government to raise
  the minimum wage and reduce unemployment
• 5. Continued support for community initiatives
  such as, community gardens, food banks and
  Harvest Box etc.

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Summary

• Food insecurity is a constant struggle for many
  individuals living in Canada. It is the typical
  state of hunger we see in many low income
  families.

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Summary
Summary

• Food Policy and Food Security is the framework
  within which decisions are made to eradicate food
  insecurity.

• Food security requires the creation of coherent
  food policy that has the optimal nourishment of
  the population as its highest purpose.

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Food Policy Aims To
Summary

• Reduce Nutrition related disease.
• Reduce hunger and food insecurity.
• Promote food self sufficiency.

• Ensure a readily available, safe supply of food.
• Improve ecology as related to farming.
• Develop food citizenship.
• (Seed. B, 2006)

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Reference

• Community Services, Social Planning. City of
  Vancouver. Food Policy
• Understanding Food Policies and their
  Relationship to Sustainability.
• Retrieved January 31, 2007 From
• www.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/socialplanning/initiativ
  es/foodpolicy/systems/index.htm
• Cooperrider, D.L., Whitney, D. (2002). A Positive
  Revolution in Change Appreciative Inquiry
  Learning Activity 2. Nursing Informatics N4111
• Retrieved February 6, 2007 From
• www.nursing-informatic.com/N4111
• McIntyre, L. (2003).Food Security More Than A
  Determinant Of Health. Policy Options
• Retrieved February 6, 2007 From
• www.chumirethicsfoundation.ca/downloads/events
  /FoodSecurity.
• Music- Anticipated
• Retrieved April 10,2007
• From Power Point Sound Organizer

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Reference
Pictures taken from google images. Keywords were
Community Gardens, Food bank, Hunger in North
America Retrieved March 23,2007. From
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Forward in Surrey and White Rock Phase 1, Food
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