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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Food Education"”.
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Supermarket Departure: An Urban Community Center for Food Education
This thesis explores the exchange of food not only as a commodity, but also as knowledge, manifested in a community center for food education in Seattle's Central District. Over the last century, the industrialization of the American food system has resulted in a dramatic increase of the scale of …
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The Food Education Project: Teaching Nutrition through Environmental Awareness
… summer semester at a local non-profit called the Food Education Project (FEP). FEP provided a practical and hands- on opportunity, which allowed for the knowledge gained over the past two years at the University of San Francisco’s Public Health Program to be put to public health practice. The …
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Childhood Obesity Fieldwork Summary Report: The Food Education Project
… by providing statistics, research efforts, educational efforts and the importance of preventing childhood obesity and diabetes. The paper will summarize, explain observations and provide insight on fieldwork completed through a project called The Food Education Project. The project focuses …
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The Impact of Health Education Among Communities w/ The Food Education Project: Exploring Healthy Eating to Modify Health Behaviors Among Youth, A Primary Intervention
… obesity remains a behavioral concern. The Food Education Project (FEP) began in 2012 and emphasizes health education throughout partnered schools in San Francisco. Health educators are employed and lead after school enrichment courses which are chosen by students. The students served are …
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Prevention of Childhood Obesity and Diabetes
… have a major influence. My internship with the Food Education Project covers a better understanding to prevent these existing public health issues through education settings not only in classrooms, but for students to also bring home. The main tools that I utilize are lesson plans, preparing …
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Food for thought: the role of land-grant institutions in local food and small farm education
… institutions in providing small farm and local food education to the community. Educational programs focused on small farms and local foods that have been created outside university settings are also studied. The dissertation is divided into three sections: 1.) programs outside universities 2.) …
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Parental Beliefs and Behaviors Related to Food Safety in Zambia: Educational Implications
Food safety has rarely been discussed in the literature on food education. In this study, Zambian parents of children in kindergarten, primary, and secondary were asked about their beliefs and other factors that influence their food safety behaviors and how these behaviors in turn impact their …
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Growing Toward the Sun: How the Good-Food Movement Catapulted a Small New York City Third-Sector Organization into Rapid Growth, Success, and Many Challenges
… organization focused on what it calls "food justice." This study concentrates on how this organization, that I call Food Rights, has built a broad multi-sector network made up of a varied set of constituents and collaborators aiming to develop and promote an alternative food system for …
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Perfil nutricional de crianças assistidas em ambiente escolar no município de João Pessoa/PB
… including children. The School of Basic Education, to be an institutional space, is considered ideal for developing nutrition and food education activities. Thus, this work includes the need to develop a monitoring service of the nutritional status of children in a school. This research …
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A study of the 2011 floods on human security in Namibia: A case study of the Oshoopala informal settlement in Oshakati
… However, people had limited basic needs such as food, education, shelter and good sanitary facilities. This study concluded that the 2011 floods had an adverse impact on the human security needs of the inhabitants of the Oshoopala informal settlement. The study recommends a plan of action …
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Applying the principles of Missio Dei: Ministering to the Mozambican migrants in the North West province of South Africa
… affecting the areas of basic sanitation, health, food, education and housing. In addition to social problems, Mozambican communities also lack spiritual help. Local churches remain weak and face diverse problems such as difficulty in forming new leaders, lack of teachers for Bible schools, …
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Reassessing the cultural distance between China and the United States as perceived by students from the Sino-American 1+2+1 dual degree program
… of difference. These attributes are language, food, education costs, and leisure activities. Participants found the CDI attributes, climate, modernity, elder esteem, and social dating conventions, of no definable difference between cultures. Participants also identified new cultural attributes …
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A microeconomic analysis of household saving: a specific focus on the lower income categories and prospects of formalising informal saving in South Africa
… living in rural areas. They also have the lowest educational level whereas the larger households are found here. Furthermore, the poor tend to spend more of their income on health, food, education and cultural activities. However, the savings of the poor is lower than the savings of the higher …
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The impact of staple crop value chain participation on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Nigeria and Malawi: changes in poverty, gender relations, and food security
… reduce poverty, boost economic growth and ensure food security across the region. These narratives promote smallholder market participation, through staple crop commercialisation, as the pathway to change. However, such narratives also reflect a neoliberal approach that tends to underestimate the …
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GREEN MINDS: KNOWLEDGE-BASED STRATEGIES FOR THE ADOPTION OF A PLANT-BASED DIET IN 3-6 Y.O. CHILDREN
… deals with how to design new knowledge-based educational programs that can help young (3- to 6-year-old) children in overcoming food neophobia, which is a disposition to reject unfamiliar food even before tasting it (Dovey et al. 2008) and constitutes a major hindrance to the adoption of …
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Social grants, food security and coping strategies: a case study of selected households in Umhlathuze District, KwaZulu-Natal.
… between social grants and access to sufficient food within beneficiary households and how these households cope with food insecurity. A data set of 100 respondents from uMhlathuze city was used to determine the effectiveness of social grants. Firstly, the results of the regression analysis show …
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Cultivating Curriculum: How Investing in School Grounds, the Streetscape and Vacant Land as Urban Ecosystems can Address Food Security, the Community and Institutions of Public Education
… shone on the issue of access to healthy foods, food education and the correlation between an increasingly unhealthy population and proximity to fresh, healthy food. Further legislation such as the Urban Agricultural Production Act of 2017 has been introduced to leverage the Farm Bill's …
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Feeding Distinction: Constrictions and Constructions of Dietary Compliance
… adds to a branch of the research on food sociology, from health to consumption passing through childhood. Nevertheless, this does not imply that the chapters are disconnected, and the reader will often find cross references throughout the manuscript. The thesis is constructed on two …
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