Who Is Food Insecure? Political Storytelling on Hunger, Household Food Choices, and the Construction of Archetypal Populations

Mah, Catherine L.; Knox, Bruce; Lynch, Meghan; McIntyre, Lynn

doi:10.1080/19320248.2020.1807434

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“…Collectively, not enough data is available to confirm an increase or decrease in SFP participation across provinces and territories. However, there is discrepancy between the public and widespread acknowledgment of increasing food insecurity rates before (Dachner and Tarasuk, 2018;Tarasuk and Mitchell, 2020) and during COVID-19 (Statistics Canada, 2020) and the fact that guiding documents inadequately make the link between these concerns and government support of SFPs (Mah et al, 2020). With few provinces and a handful of charities providing increased support to expand SFP operation during COVID-19, this demonstrates that neither fully addressing food insecurity through moving beyond targeted programs nor proactively considering the numerous benefits of SFPs for learning and population health in the long-term, are central to considerations.…”

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COVID-19 School Re-opening Plans: Rolling Back School Food Programming in Canada?

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At the beginning of 2020 national school food programs reached more children than any time in history making school food programs the most extensive form of social safety nets in the world. Looking to Canada, school food programs across the country serve more than 1 million students and provide multifaceted benefits including access to healthy fresh food choices, improving learning capacities, promoting nutritional awareness, assisting food-insecure households, and promoting local food procurement. However, since the beginning of the SARS-Cov 2 (COVID-19) pandemic these programs have faced operational challenges resulting in many rolling back their operations while food insecurity rates in Canada have increased dramatically. Framed as a Canadian case study analysis, this paper considers the discursive effects of provincial and territorial school reopening plans and the material consequences felt by SFPs. Specifically, this paper considers the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance of provincial and territorial school food programs within the broader conceptualization of ecological public health to consider if these programs were enabled or constrained by school reopening plans. The authors conducted a policy analysis of 57 primary and 164 supportive school reopening documents developed between April 2020 and September 2021. It was found that provincial and territorial school reopening plans primarily focused on measures to limit infectious disease transmission while food discussed in broad terms demonstrated policy makers' limited awareness of the important role of school food programs and support required to maintain them. In turn, two key observations were made: 1) government school reopening plans have overlooked the benefits of school food programs in Canada, and 2) school reopening plan designers missed opportunities to improve school food programs. This paper argues a thorough understanding of the impacts to school food programs by provincial and territorial COVID-19 public health guidelines is needed for politicians, policymakers, and school food practitioners to support the short- and long-term capacity of these programs and to ensure food insecurity and nutritional health issues in Canada continue to be on thepolitical agenda.

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COVID-19 School Re-opening Plans: Rolling Back School Food Programming in Canada?

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“…Given the various challenges facing the inland aquaculture production and system (i.e., competitive use of freshwater with humans and other industries, effluent discharge and eutrophication problems), there is an increasing need to facilitate coastal aquaculture activities to accelerate the production of seafood (Jerneck and Olsson, 2014). The sustainable production of aquaculture products (i.e., production of healthy aquatic food without causing environmental degradation), therefore, is key to sufficient food production and efficient deliveries of ecosystem services as we aim to alleviate hunger and ensure food security (Costello et al, 2020;Mah et al, 2020).…”

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Breeding Technology as a Tool for Sustainable Aquaculture Production and Ecosystem Services

2022

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Aquaculture is the aquatic equivalent of agriculture. While agriculture is predominantly based on the use of freshwater to grow crops, aquaculture utilizes freshwater (i.e. inland waters) and brackish water/seawater (i.e. coastal waters) to culture fish, plants, shellfish (bivalve, abalone, sea urchins and sea cucumbers), macro and microalgae. The increasing scarcity of captive aquatic fisheries resources has led to the regenerative farming practices of aquaculture. Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food sector in the world and about the most important means of providing sustainable food production currently. Among the several aquaculture techniques used, breeding technology has been exploited to improve food production. Beyond captive production, breeding technology has also been exploited for restocking programs of many aquatic ecosystems (i.e. rivers, lakes, sea, estuaries, etc.), hence, contributing positively to their management and ecosystem services. This comment, therefore, highlights some breeding technology as regards to their ability to improve sustainable captive production and aquatic ecosystem services.

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Queering food security research: A critical analysis of 2SLGBTQ+ People's experiences of food insecurity in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Williams,

Mikelsteins

et al. 2024

Social Science & Medicine

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Who Is Food Insecure? Political Storytelling on Hunger, Household Food Choices, and the Construction of Archetypal Populations

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

COVID-19 School Re-opening Plans: Rolling Back School Food Programming in Canada?

COVID-19 School Re-opening Plans: Rolling Back School Food Programming in Canada?

Breeding Technology as a Tool for Sustainable Aquaculture Production and Ecosystem Services

Queering food security research: A critical analysis of 2SLGBTQ+ People's experiences of food insecurity in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic

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