HLTH 3304 P01 Consumer Health: Global Food Practice- Scholarly Websites

The Association for Vertical Farming is an internationally active nonprofit organization of individuals, companies, research institutions and universities focusing on leading and advancing the sustainable growth and development of the vertical farming movement.

 

Crop Trust is the only international organization dedicated solely to conserving and making available crop diversity. Crop diversity is the foundation of agriculture, enabling it to evolve and adapt to meet the never-ending challenge of sustainably producing sufficient and nutritious food for an increasing population. Solutions to the challenges threatening our food system can be found through utilizing the amazing wealth of diversity of our food crops.

 

CUESA is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to growing thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. Their vision is to inspire a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth. The organization operates high-quality farmers markets and provides exceptional services and education programs to market patrons.

 

FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, is a leading provider of early warning and analysis on acute food insecurity. Created in 1985 by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after devastating famines in East and West Africa, FEWS NET provides objective, evidence-based analysis to help government decision-makers and relief agencies plan for and respond to humanitarian crises.

 

The Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, works to end the injustices that cause hunger through research, education and action.
Informed by a vast network of activist-researchers, Food First’s analysis and educational resources support communities and social movements fighting for food justice and food sovereignty around the world. Food First gives you the tools to understand our global food system, and to build your local food movement from the ground up.

 

This page from the Cultures of Resistance Networks provides information about food sustainability, a checklist for what you can do to contribute to food sustainability, and links to other organizations that support food sustainability.

 

Food security, as defined by the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security, means that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life. This IFPRI page will direct you to articles, datasets, news, experts, and more related to the topic of food security.

 

USDA supports global food security through in-country capacity building, basic and applied research, and support for improved market information, statistics and analysis. With 870 million people around the world who do not have access to a sufficient supply of nutritious and safe food, establishing global food security is important not only to hundreds of millions of hungry people, but also to the sustainable economic growth of these nations and the long-term economic prosperity of the United States.

 

The Food Sustainability Index (FSI) ranks 67 countries on food system sustainability. It is a quantitative and qualitative benchmarking model constructed from 38 indicators and 90 individual metrics that measure the sustainability of food systems across three categories: Food Loss and Waste, Sustainable Agriculture and Nutritional Challenges. The index has three key types of performance indicators—environmental, societal and economic.

 

How our food is produced and what types of foods we’re consuming can have significant impacts on our environment. Nurses can play a key role in reducing these impacts through their own choices, client education, and being involved in the food choices available at their medical facility. Listed below are some of the challenges of our current food system that can impact health, including antibiotic resistance, farmworker exposures, industrial farming, access to fresh fruits and vegetables and the decline of the bee population due to pesticide use.

 

The Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty (WGIFS) was born in March of 2006 out of a recognized need to carry the Indigenous voice in the various meetings, conferences and discussions that have taken place within the food security movement. Through participation in the B.C. Food Systems Network Annual Gathering and strategic planning meetings, the WGIFS was created for the purpose of increasing awareness of the underlying issues, concerns and strategies impacting food security in Indigenous communities. The WGIFS seeks to apply culturally appropriate protocols and ancient ways of knowing through a consensus-based approach to critically analyzing issues, concerns and strategies as they relate to Indigenous food, land, culture, health, economics, and sustainability.

 

This educational guide provides information about food sustainability, related key terms for understanding sustainable food systems, and references for further reading.

 

FAO has developed a common vision and an integrated approach to sustainability across agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
This unified perspective – valid across all agricultural sectors and taking into account social, economic and environmental considerations – ensures the effectiveness of action on the ground and is underpinned by knowledge based on the best available science, and adaptation at community and country levels to ensure local relevance and applicability.