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Unit 2 - Lesson 2 - Food Security (Part 2)

This document outlines a nutrition and health lesson plan on food security. It includes 5 learning goals that cover defining food security, understanding factors that impact it like availability and accessibility, and strategies to combat food insecurity. Success criteria ensure students understand the components of food security and connections between social determinants of health. The lesson discusses environmental, socio-cultural, and other factors influencing food security and strategies in Canada like community gardens, preserving food, and protecting farmland. Students are assigned homework on this topic.

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Unit 2 - Lesson 2 - Food Security (Part 2)

This document outlines a nutrition and health lesson plan on food security. It includes 5 learning goals that cover defining food security, understanding factors that impact it like availability and accessibility, and strategies to combat food insecurity. Success criteria ensure students understand the components of food security and connections between social determinants of health. The lesson discusses environmental, socio-cultural, and other factors influencing food security and strategies in Canada like community gardens, preserving food, and protecting farmland. Students are assigned homework on this topic.

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Nutrition and Health,

Grade 12, University


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

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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? - Review

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Environmental Factors
• Natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, etc. can affect not
only food accessibility but also availability, adequacy, and acceptability

• Environmental degradation is another cause of food insecurity. When plants,


animals, and fish cannot grow abundantly because of extreme weather
events, the food supply is affected.

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Overharvesting
• When a plant, animal, or fish is consumed at a higher rate than it can be
replenished

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Socio-cultural Factors
• Food must be safe for consumption and acceptability means that food
must be available in a way that does not compromise a person’s dignity

• What is considered edible varies from culture to culture and is often


based on religious customs

• For food security to exist, a person must be able to obtain food that
meets his or her dietary customs

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Food Literacy
• Understanding the impact of your food
choices on your health, the environment,
and your community is another factor
that affects food security

• Knowing what food is nutritious, how to


read food labels, how to plan meals, and
how to prepare food safely, all contribute
to food security

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Improving Food Security in Canada


• The five key components of food
security, accessibility, availability,
adequacy, acceptability, and
sustainability, all need to be addressed to
increase food security in Canada.

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Community Supported Agriculture and Farmers'


Markets
• Community supported agriculture (CSA) is an approach to the
food supply that helps support local, small-scale farms and
provide fresh, local food to consumers.

• Farmers' markets are also becoming more popular in Canada

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Urban Gardens
• Gardens are appearing in schoolyards, rooftops, community
gardens and sidewalks, providing the opportunity for people to
grow food!

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Preserving Food
• Food preserving helps promote food security by giving people
the option of buying foods when they are on sale, or picking
them when they are needed
• Buying food in large quantities is often less expensive per
serving than buying single-serve packages, so knowing how to
store and preserve foods are useful skills

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Promoting Traditional Aboriginal


Foods
• Traditional diets of Aboriginal peoples are
high in protein and rich in resources of
heart-healthy fats and micronutrients

• Because traditional foods have good


nutritional value, eating them as part of
your diet is one way to increase food
security

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Community Food Centers


• These began in Toronto and are now being
developed in other communities across Canada

• They are spaces where people can get groceries,


learn food skills, socialize with others, and help
advocate for change

• It gives all individuals and families, especially


those with lower incomes, access to space, tools,
and knowledge to make a permanent change.

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Protecting Farmland
• Land that is suitable for agriculture needs to be
protected to prevent it from being used for other
purposes such as residential or commercial
development

• Only 6% of the land in Canada is considered


suitable for agriculture

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Food Banks
• Food banks are able to meet a person's immediate
need for food, but they do not resolve the long-
term issue of food insecurity

• Food banks provide groceries for people to take


home and prepare themselves

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Food Distribution and Food Security


• A food distribution system refers to all the steps
in getting food from where it is grown or
harvested to the person who eats it. This is also
known as food supply chain.

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Fair Trade
• In trade negotiations, the term is used broadly to argue that subsidies and
hidden barriers skew the global trade system against developing countries
and commodity producers.

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Co-operatives
• Associations of people who join to meet their common economic, social,
and/or cultural needs through jointly owned enterprises

• Agricultural co-operatives exist to provide services to their members,


such as collective bargaining to get the best prices on seeds, supplies, and
equipment

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Homework: Food
Security (Part 2)

• In the resources section you will find the


Food Security (Part 2) homework handout.
• You should review the lesson notes and
then proceed to solve the homework
questions.
• Submit your work to the Dropbox called
U2L2: Homework.

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HFA4U
UNIT 2 Lesson 2

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