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FOOD BANK
Definition of Food Bank
A food bank is a non-profit organization that provides food directly or indirectly to individuals.
Food is either donated to, or purchased by, the food bank. This food is then distributed directly to the needy or to other non-profit organizations.
FOOD BANK AND FOOD INSECURITY
Relationship between a Food Bank and Food Insecurity
Food insecurity and hunger emphasize a deprivation of a human basic need which is unacceptable in its own right and both as well act as a major leader to nutritional, health and developmental problems.
food bank acts as a food insecurity alleviator with a long term goal on decreasing the prevalence of food insecurity in Lebanon..
THE REALITY IN LEBANON
The main reasons described in studies behind food insecurity are low or unstable income and poverty.
In Lebanon approximately 28 percent of the Lebanese population is considered poor or below the upper poverty line and 8 percent extremely poor. .
The extreme poverty line, in other words the income level, at which a family of five members can meet only its food requirements, was estimated to be around $306 per month. Around 300 thousand individuals in Lebanon are unable to meet their food and non food empirical needs. Generally other reasons behind food insecurity include unemployment or unstable employment which is a wide spread characteristic within the Lebanese population.
FOOD INSECURITY
Definition of Food Insecurity
Food security is “when every person has physical and economic access at all times to healthy and nutritious food in sufficient quantity to cover the needs of their daily ration and food preferences, in order to live a healthy and active life.”
Food security, in other words the absence of hunger, is an essential component of well-being. Thus food insecurity is totally the opposite. Food insecurity is also characterized as the situation that results from insufficient household resources. Food security is complicated and multidimensional which differs from one household to another into different stages ranging from food secure situation to the full- drastic-scale characterized by the unbearable sensation of hunger and famine.
Food security is complicated and multidimensional which differs from one household to another into different stages ranging from food secure situation to the full- drastic-scale characterized by the unbearable sensation of hunger and famine.
Food security status is basically divided into three categories: food security, food insecurity, and hunger. The definitions of the previously mentioned categories were published in the 1990 by the Life Sciences Research Office (LSRO) of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and were as follow:
Food security — “Access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food security includes at a minimum: the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (e.g., without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies).”
Food insecurity — “Limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.”
Hunger — “The uneasy or painful sensation caused by a lack of food. The recurrent and involuntary lack of access to food. Hunger may produce malnutrition over time…. Hunger … is a potential, although not necessary, consequence of food insecurity.”
THE REALITY IN LEBANON
The main reasons described in studies behind food insecurity are low or unstable income and poverty.
In Lebanon approximately 28 percent of the Lebanese population is considered poor or below the upper poverty line and 8 percent extremely poor. .
The extreme poverty line, in other words the income level, at which a family of five members can meet only its food requirements, was estimated to be around $306 per month. Around 300 thousand individuals in Lebanon are unable to meet their food and non food empirical needs. Generally other reasons behind food insecurity include unemployment or unstable employment which is a wide spread characteristic within the Lebanese population.
FOOD INSECURITY
Definition of Food Insecurity
Food security is “when every person has physical and economic access at all times to healthy and nutritious food in sufficient quantity to cover the needs of their daily ration and food preferences, in order to live a healthy and active life.”
Food security, in other words the absence of hunger, is an essential component of well-being. Thus food insecurity is totally the opposite. Food insecurity is also characterized as the situation that results from insufficient household resources. Food security is complicated and multidimensional which differs from one household to another into different stages ranging from food secure situation to the full- drastic-scale characterized by the unbearable sensation of hunger and famine.
Food security is complicated and multidimensional which differs from one household to another into different stages ranging from food secure situation to the full- drastic-scale characterized by the unbearable sensation of hunger and famine.
Food security status is basically divided into three categories: food security, food insecurity, and hunger. The definitions of the previously mentioned categories were published in the 1990 by the Life Sciences Research Office (LSRO) of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and were as follow: Food security — “Access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food security includes at a minimum: the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (e.g., without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies).”
Food insecurity — “Limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.”
Hunger — “The uneasy or painful sensation caused by a lack of food. The recurrent and involuntary lack of access to food. Hunger may produce malnutrition over time…. Hunger … is a potential, although not necessary, consequence of food insecurity.”