The Missouri Food Pantry Nutrition Improvement Project

Rikoon, Sandy; Foulkes, Mary A.; Heflin, Colleen; Hermsen, Joan M.; Raedeke, N.; McKelvey, Blake; Schnell, J.

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2013.04.243

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“…The USDA reported that 15.8% of Missouri households were food insecure in 2008, with 5.8% characterized as ''very low food security,'' meaning that they experience real hunger. Missouri's food insecurity continues to grow at a comparatively rapid rate; the numbers from 2006-2008 were nearly 20% higher than 2003-2005 and 39% higher than a decade ago, from 1996-1998 (Rikoon et al 2010). Missouri's increase in food insecurity over the first decade of the twenty-first century rates among the highest five states, along with Arkansas.…”

Section: Food Insecurity In the Ozark Highlandsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Arkansas and Missouri also rank among the five states with the highest rates of food insecurity for children under 18, with Arkansas at 24.4% and Missouri at 23.2% (Gundersen et al 2011). Food insecurity exists throughout Arkansas, with slightly higher rates in the Mississippi Delta than the Ozarks; however, in Missouri, it is the Ozark region that has the highest concentration of counties classified as ''most insecure'' (Rikoon et al 2010).…”

Section: Food Insecurity In the Ozark Highlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While much has changed in the Ozarks, poverty and hunger remain. Despite transportation routes that provide ready access to goods from anywhere, and abundant undeveloped land for food procurement, food insecurity continues to rise (Rikoon et al 2010). The percentage of people growing their own food steadily declines.…”

Section: Lessons From Ozark Agroecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Food assistance programs serve an enormous need, assisting the neediest; however, researchers continue to point out the failings of top-down hunger relief programs (Barrett 2010;Pottier 1999;Rikoon et al 2010). Pottier (1999 claims that ''the failure of conventional famine relief (and of 'normal' food aid) is the very reason why anthropologists tend to argue that communities facing food shortage may be better off when food aid…fails to reach them.…”

Section: Food Security Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Relying on their own resources, vulnerable communities may stand a better chance of recovery and of preserving their ability to do so in the future.'' Besides food insecurity, poverty also positively correlates with chronic diseases frequently caused by poor nutrition, such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity (Rikoon et al 2010). Unfortunately, foods distributed through aid programs frequently include excessive calories and fat and are low in nutrition.…”

Section: Food Security Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Just Eat Peas and Dance: Field Peas (Vigna unguiculata) and Food Security in the Ozark Highlands, U.S

Campbell¹

2014

Journal of Ethnobiology

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Field peas (Vigna unguiculata L. [Walp]) are recognized as an important agricultural crop throughout Africa and Asia for myriad reasons, ranging from their remarkably high nutrient content to their adaptability to marginal lands. In the early twentieth century, agricultural research stations investigated and advocated V. unguiculata for sustainable farming in the United States of America (U.S.) but such interest has all but disappeared in commercial agronomy. U.S.-focused agronomists perceive field peas as relatively incompatible with contemporary non-integrated agricultural systems, climate, and fast-food culinary habits; however, the species remains integral to the traditional cuisine of the southern U.S. With almost 18 million U.S. households experiencing food insecurity in 2011, a marked increase over the last decade, fresh strategies and time-tested species deserve research attention. This paper explores the role of field peas in hunger mitigation in the recent past in the Ozark Highlands, a marginal landscape unable to support large-scale industrial crop production, which currently endures some of the highest food insecurity rates in the U.S. Ethnographic accounts detail the importance of field peas during difficult times, and findings from an agrobiodiversity conservation project demonstrate the salience of field peas as a staple food and feed crop amongst older, traditional Ozark families. I conclude with a discussion of field peas’ role in community food systems strategies for contemporary and future Ozark food security.

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Section: Food Insecurity In the Ozark Highlandsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Food Insecurity In the Ozark Highlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Lessons From Ozark Agroecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Food Security Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Food Security Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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