Food Insecurity Experience
As someone who grew up in sub-Saharan Africa, I got to experience food insecurity personally. I was in Rwanda during the war that lasted 4 years and ended with the 1994 genocide. Ironically, my experience with food insecurity came after the civil war, mainly because those who supported me were dead. We used to eat once a day and sometimes we would go two to three days without food. I remember pain, anxiety of being hungry and feeling hopeless and depressed. Last month driving while visiting Paris, we drove by what seemed to be immigration office with hundreds of refugees of all ages camping outside, wondering around town asking for food. It reminded me of those days in a refugee camp, where food insecurity is certain. This is just a couple
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Meaning that the food consumption of one or more house members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food (Coleman-Jensen et al., 2010). A few years ago I used to volunteer at the Portland Rescue Mission, where I helped serve food to homeless people and to those who could not afford a meal. Food insecure people are all around us, in our neighborhoods and even on campus at PSU. However, local organizations are doing the fair share to help those in need. The Portland Rescue Mission, the PSU Committee for Improving Student food Security (CISFS) that had patterned with Oregon Food Bank to introduce monthly Harvest Share at PSU, the non-profit organization like Store to Door that deliver groceries to elderly and those with disabilities. In recent years, the Economic Research Services (ERS) reported an estimated 500 to 700 million people in the 76 countries studied are food insecure. The estimate for 2015 is 475 million food-insecure people, meaning they consume less than 2,100 calories per day. Though, food security conditions differ from year to year due to changes in local food production and the financial ability of countries to secure food in global markets. Even with overall global progress, Sub-Saharan Africa continues to account for the majority of the food insecure people paralleled to the rest of the world (Frazao et Al.,
Meaning that the food consumption of one or more house members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food (Coleman-Jensen et al., 2010). A few years ago I used to volunteer at the Portland Rescue Mission, where I helped serve food to homeless people and to those who could not afford a meal. Food insecure people are all around us, in our neighborhoods and even on campus at PSU. However, local organizations are doing the fair share to help those in need. The Portland Rescue Mission, the PSU Committee for Improving Student food Security (CISFS) that had patterned with Oregon Food Bank to introduce monthly Harvest Share at PSU, the non-profit organization like Store to Door that deliver groceries to elderly and those with disabilities. In recent years, the Economic Research Services (ERS) reported an estimated 500 to 700 million people in the 76 countries studied are food insecure. The estimate for 2015 is 475 million food-insecure people, meaning they consume less than 2,100 calories per day. Though, food security conditions differ from year to year due to changes in local food production and the financial ability of countries to secure food in global markets. Even with overall global progress, Sub-Saharan Africa continues to account for the majority of the food insecure people paralleled to the rest of the world (Frazao et Al.,