Food insecurity & hunger in the United States / [compiled by Grey House Publishing].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grey House Publishing, Inc., compiler.

Series:

Reference shelf ; v. 93, no. 2.

The reference shelf / H.W. Wilson, a Division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; volume 93, number 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--United States--Sources.

Food security.

Hunger--United States--Sources.

Hunger.

Food supply--United States--Sources.

Food supply.

United States.

Genre:

Sources.

Reference works.

Physical Description:

xv, 163 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Food insecurity and hunger in the United States

Place of Publication:

Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

This volume of The Reference Shelf looks at America's food economy and food inequality. Though America is the world's wealthiest nation and has some of the most productive agricultural land in the world, it still has a serious problem with food availability and hunger.

Contents:

1. Poverty, unemployment, and underemployment

The economic dimension of America's food problems

Food insecurity in the U.S. by the numbers / Christianna Silva

U.S. is a land of plenty, so why do millions of Americans still go hungry? / Jeffrey H. Cohen and Jay L. Zagorsky

America's dirty little secret: 42 million people are suffering from hunger / Susan Caminiti

World hunger is still not going down after three years and obesity is still growing / United Nations

2. Supplementing nutrition

Supplementing food for families and children

Trump fights in court to block pandemic food aid for lowest-income Americans / Helena Bottemiller Evich

Making SNAP healthier with food incentives and disincentives could improve health and save costs / Dariush Mozaffarian

Why are more schools going after families for lunch debt? / Emily Moon

Debt collectors over kids' school lunch bills? It's real / Jessica Fu Schools are shaming kids who can't afford lunch, but there are ways to stop it / Monica Humphries

3. Finding food

Food deserts and the search for nutrition

Everything you need to know about food deserts / Jessica Booth

Eliminating food deserts won't help poorer Americans eat healthier / Hunt Allcott, Jean-Pierre Dubé, and Molly Schnell

The fight to eliminate food deserts in St. Louis / Rebecca Koenig

It's not the food deserts: it's the inequality / Richard Florida

The COVID-19 crisis has already left too many children hungry in America / Lauren Bauer

A crisis within a crisis: food insecurity and COVID-19 / Michel Martin

Study: 29 million American adults don't have enough to eat, nearly a threefold increase from two years / Sam Bloch

COVID-19 pandemic is the first time 40% of Americans have experienced food insecurity / Megan Leonhardt

4. The world's problem

Global factors contributing to hunger Climate change and global hunger / Emily Folk

World hunger has risen for three straight years, and climate change is a cause / Jessica Eise and Kenneth Foster

Trump's trade wars have made bad agriculture policies worse / Clark Packard

Food banks win in a Trump trade war / April Simpson

Tackling hunger at home and abroad because our food policy is our foreign policy / Dwight Evans

5. Finding solutions

Efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity in the United States

Why community-owned grocery stores like co-ops are the best recipe for revitalizing food deserts / Catherine Brinkley

Neglected crops could be global solution for food insecurity / Daphne Ewing-Chow

The solution to food insecurity is food sovereignty / Jeongyeol Kim and Pramesh Pokharel

GMOs are an ally in a changing climate / Emma Harris

Urban farming is the future of agriculture / Patrick Caughill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781642657906

1642657905

9781642655995

1642655996

OCLC:

1237718723