Child Hunger In Canada

Child hunger is a complex and multidimensional problem. Therefore, it is often difficult for policymakers to develop plans on how to eradicate this issue. It is important to keep in mind that despite challenges, one solution will not be effective, but instead, a variety of resources will be needed in order to ameliorate child hunger. In the Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) sponsored study, The Follow-Up Study of Child Hunger in Canada, several policy recommendations are outlined to help improve food insecurity. For most families, hunger occurs due to insufficient money to purchase food (McIntyre, Walsh & Connor, 2001). As a result, “inadequate income [has become] a function of low earnings and low social assistance benefits

The main theme around this structure was the over-consumption of food, and how wasteful we as humans can be when it comes to food. It is so easy for us to throw away food when we can longer eat it, while there are so many starving individuals and families in the world who would do anything for the scraps we see fit to throw out. It was a gentle reminder that we cannot take the resources we have for granted, as others would be ever so grateful to be in our position.

Lastly, you would expect the Italian pavilion to be one of the more prominent displays at the Expo since they were hosting. They did no less than impress their visitors, as a lot of their pavilion was centered around their action plan for how we can achieve food security among everyone, including, but not extended to: planting more figs as they don’t need chemicals, can grow almost anywhere and are the future of nutrition, using orange threads to produce materials such as fabric and growing tomatoes on Mars (Italian Pavilion,

For one, direct measures of hunger are not only indicative of food insecurity but also encompass broader problems such as poverty rates (McIntyre, Walsh & Connor, 2001). Thus, implementing a systematic measurement for hunger and household food insecurity through the Canadian Population Health Initiative may establish more accurate information that can be used to generate a better social equity response in policy reform (McIntyre, Walsh & Connor, 2001). In order to comprehensively and holistically address health concerns regarding child hunger, it is advised that “the National Children’s Agenda and other complementary child health and social development initiatives prioritize the health of Canada’s poorest children and their families in [the organization’s] action plans” (McIntyre, Walsh & Connor, 2001, p.39). For continued research into child hunger and child poverty, Canada’s most marginalized children should be frequently monitored and research findings should be utilized by policymakers to improve child well-being (McIntyre, Walsh & Connor, 2001). Lastly,