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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"community food security"”.
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The contribution of small-scale fisheries to the community food security of one South African coastal community
Small-scale fisheries contribute to the food security of a significant portion of the global population through direct consumption and indirectly as a vital source of income. Approximately, 50 million individuals involved in capture fisheries are small-scale fishers and they contribute to 80 …
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Case Study on a Container Gardening Program: Can Home Food Production Impact Community Food Security in Rural Appalachia?
… been a subsistence or supplemental form of food procurement worldwide and promoted as a food security project in times of economic hardship. Qualitative research was used to investigate container gardening's potential to provide the impetus for further agricultural activities within …
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An Ideal Model for Nonprofit Community-Based Agriculture: Growing Food Security in Low-Income Communities
… develop an ideal model for nonprofits to provide community food security in low-income neighborhoods through community-based agriculture programs (CBA). Methods: A preliminary model for nonprofit CBA was developed from a review of the literature and research on nonprofit organizations and …
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Growing Support: Localism, Nonprofits, and Food Access in Post-Katrina New Orleans
<p>Problems with food insecurity, such as a lack of access to healthy and affordable food in low-income neighborhoods, has been an ongoing challenge in New Orleans. The damages inflicted by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent citywide flooding on the local food system reduced the numerical count of …
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Mapping and modeling British Columbia's food self-sufficiency
Interest in local food security has increased in the last decade, stemming from concerns surrounding environmental sustainability, agriculture, and community food security. Promotions for consumption of locally produced foods have come from activists, non-governmental organizations, as well as some …
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The Role of the Farmacy Garden as a Site for Transformative Learning for Sustainability
… neoliberal political economy guiding our present food system has contributed to our present unsustainable situation, characterized by wicked problems such as environmental degradation, food insecurity and diet-related illness. Our current condition demands a new conception of sustainability to …
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Examining Contributors and Solutions to Prevent and Manage Food Waste in Households with Low Incomes and the Emergency Food System within the U.S.
… United States (U.S.), up to 40% of the entire food supply is lost or wasted, which contributes to negative environmental, economic, and social outcomes, with the majority of food waste occurring in the retail and consumer sectors of the food supply chain. Concurrently, 10.5% of U.S. households …
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Growing Food Security: The Impact of Community Gardens on Food Security in Denver, Colorado
<p>Community gardens increase mental health, physical health and social inclusiveness and cohesiveness, while directly connecting gardeners to their environment. In some U.S. cities gardens additionally increase community and individual food security by providing fresh food to those who struggle to …
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Ontological Possibilities: Rhizoanalytic Explorations of Community Food Work in Central Appalachia
In the United States, the community food movement has been put forward as a potential solution for a global food system that fails to provide just and equitable access to nutritious food. This claim has been subject to the criticism of a variety of scholars and activists, some of whom contend that …