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What is food insecurity? According to the United States Department of Agriculture, food insecurity is “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food. In other words, food insecurity is “the lack of access to enough food.” How is food insecurity a social problem? Food insecurity is a social problem because there are over 279,000 individuals within Southern Nevada that struggle with hunger. Chronic food insecurity, due to poverty, can result in a nutrition-poor diet and can be difficult to manage “diet-related chronic diseases.” Site approach to issue Three Square Food Bank has provided a service plan to include an infrastructure needed to collect, sort, store and distribute enormous quantities of food and grocery product.
Publisher Location
Las Vegas (Nev.)
Publication Date
4-27-2018
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
Keywords
Food insecurity; Food bank
Controlled Subject
Service learning
Disciplines
Education
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380 KB
Recommended Citation
Sahagun, Daisy, "Three Square Food Bank" (2018). First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103). 34.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/educ_fys_103/34
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