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Three Square Food Bank, Daisy Sahagun

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

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 …