Nutrition and Health,

Grade 12, University

Preparation(HFA4U)
Unit 2 – Lesson 1
Food Security (Part 1)

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Learning Goals (Lessons 1 & 2)

1. Define food security and explain the key components of it (D1.1)
2. Understand the factors that impact food security including
availability, accessibility, adequacy, sustainability, etc. (D1.2)
3. Discuss how poverty, food insecurity and nutritional status relate
(D1.3)
4. Explain how food security is impacted by various food distribution
systems (D1.4)
5. Discuss strategies that would help combat food insecurity both at
the local and global level (D1.5)

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Success Criteria (Lessons 1 & 2)

 I understand the components of food security
 I can explain how different factors (e.g. economic, geographic,
environmental, socio-cultural, political) impact food security
 I am able to make connections between the social determinants
of health and food security
 I understand the variety of initiatives in place to combat food
insecurity in Canada and around the globe

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What is Food Security?

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What is Food Security?

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What is Food Security?

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What is Food Security?

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What is Food Security?

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Food systems must be sustainable!

• Food must be produced, harvested, processed, distributed and consumed in
a way that maintains and enhances the quality of land, air, and water for
future generation, and in which people are ale to earn a living wage in a safe
and healthy working environment.

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The Universal Declaration of Human

Rights
• All people at all times have the right to food and all human beings have
equal right to live free from hunger.
• People should be able to access the food they need to prevent
malnutrition or starvation!

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Household Food Insecurity –

Canada

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Household Food Insecurity –

Canada

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Issues Related to Food Security

• Conditions in which people are born, grow, live and age are known as the
social determinants of health (SDoH)

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Issues Related to Food Security

• There are complex economic, geographic, cultural, and political factors
that lead to food insecurity, including poverty, isolation, environmental
factors, over-harvesting, and lack of infrastructure

• Chronic food insecurity occurs when nutritious food is unavailable for

long periods of time, leading to prolonged malnutrition and starvation.

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Poverty

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The Feminization of Poverty

• Women represent a disproportionate
percentage of the world’s poor because of
bias based on gender
1. Fewer women than men own land or
other property or have incomes
2. Women also have less control over
how their earnings are spent.

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The Feminization of Poverty

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The Feminization of Poverty

• When a mother is poor, she is less likely
to eat well when she is pregnant and her
child may be born underweight and/or
underdeveloped.
• This can affect the child’s physical growth
and mental development, which can then
have an effect on his or her ability to
become self-supporting.

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Quality of Food in Low-income

Communities
• Research shows that people who live in low-income
communities often rely on foods high in
carbohydrates, sodium, sugar, and fat to a greater
extent than people in higher income groups because
these types of processed foods are often less
expensive or more readily available than fresh
vegetables, fruits, and sources of protein.

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Isolation
Physical isolation can restrict a person’s access to food and therefore his
or her food security. These situations can all lead to full insecurity:
1. Living in a remote location where food is not always available;
2. Living in a city where there is no convenient access to a grocery store;
3. Having a physical disability that makes shopping for food
4. Difficult and growing or hunting for your own food impossible;
5. Living in a small community where the special diet you need, such as
gluten-free food if you have celiac disease, is not available.

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Homework: Food
Security (Part 1)

• In the resources section you will find the

Food Security (Part 1) homework handout.
• You should review the lesson notes and
then proceed to solve the homework
questions.
• Submit your work to the Dropbox called
U2L1: Homework.

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HFA4U
UNIT 2 Lesson 1