Week 6 Class Plan

Farm Education for Youth Capstone, Spring 2017

Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

Announcements

Brief Power point detailing roots of structural inequality and racism in the US.

(Selected slides from Feeding America’s “Racial Justice and the Anti-Hunger Fight” power point.)

Analysis of “Racial Equity in the Food System” reading

  • In small groups, review the portion of the report given to you and document three key points from this section on the newsprint provided
  • Post newsprint sheets around the room
  • Gallery Walk: Entire class reviews newsprint sheets

BREAK

Watch Ted Talk:

Food + Justice = Democracy: LaDonna Redmond at TEDxManhattan 2013 (11 Minutes)

OR

Watch john powell’s brief talk(7 minutes) on “opportunity structures.” How do you

see these structures playing out in your community/state/region? How can we shift

efforts to “fix people,” in the direction of “fixing structures” that create more

opportunities for more people, and especially those who lack opportunity?

5 Whys Activity:

  • In pairs, take turns completing the following statement as it reflects your understanding of the experience of “Barbie Izquierda” in our film titled “A Place At the Table.”

Statement: Barbie Izquierda and her children are food insecure. Why? (Repeat this questions 5 times per person to drill down to the root causes of poverty for Barbie.)

Individual Free Write/Learning Assessment:

  • What did you learn about root causes of racial inequity in the US food system as a result of today’s class?
  • What are two ways to address racial inequity in the US food system on a personal or systemic/policy level?
  • What questions remain for you?

1)Defining Hunger – Federal Definitions for Hunger (Celine) – see powerpoint

DEFINING HUNGER

1)Household Food Security Measure facilitated by the USDA

2)Hunger Terms: (Dept of Agriculture eliminated use of word “hunger” in 2006 and replaced this with four categories of food security – high, marginal, low and very low)

3)NUTRITIONAL TERMSDEFINITION

FOOD SECURITYAccess to enough food for an active, healthy life. At a minimum, food security includes:

(1) the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and

(2) an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (e.g., without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging or other coping strategies).

FOOD INSECURITYThe limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods, including involuntarily cutting back on meals, food portions or not knowing the source of the next meal.

(May also involve reliance on emergency food)

Levels of Food Security: high, marginal, low, very low – see attached

Time Allowing…

HUNGERThe discomfort, weakness, or pain caused by a prolonged lack of food. In addition, many experts consider hunger to be chronically inadequate nutritional intake due to low incomes; that is, people do not have to experience discomfort, weakness, or pain to be hungry from a nutritional perspective. The long-term effect of hunger is malnutrition.

MALNUTRITIONA serious health impairment that results from substandard nutrient intake. Malnutrition may result from a lack of food, a chronic shortage of key nutrients, or impaired absorption and metabolism associated with chronic conditions or diseases.

OBESITYAn abnormal accumulation of body fat that my result in health impairments. Obesity is generally defined by the National Institutes of Health as having body weight that is more than 20% above the high range for ideal body weight. An obese person can experience malnutrition if obesity has resulted from dealing with food insecurity by relying on less expensive, less nutritious, high-calorie foods to stave off the sensation of hunger.

Source: Long Island Cares, Inc. Glossary of Hunger Terms,