Food Security Formula
Food Security = ((Labour + Philosophy + Climate & Landscape) / (Availability + Accessibility + Adequacy + Acceptability + Agency)) X (Poverty + Hunger)
Food Security = ((L + P + C&L) / (5 A's)) X (P+H)
or
Food Security = (A group of people + a set of ideas + their climate & landscape) / (Who are trying to grow, produce and distribute food in their human environment) X (While overcoming challenges and barriers related to Poverty and Hunger)
Legend:
Labour
- Creating Jobs
- Volunteer Help
- Social Enterprise
- Youth/Elder Engagement
+
Philosophy
- Indigenous Wisdom (Permaculture & Sustainability)
- Urban Farming
- Commons
- Modes of Organizing: Unregistered Associations of Persons, Co-operatives, Non-Profits, Companies,
+
Climate & Landscape
- Weather Patterns
- Natural Barriers & Pathways to growing
/
Availability
- Sufficient food for all people at all times
+
Accessibility
- Physical and economic access to food for all at all times
+
Adequacy
- Access to food that is nutritious and safe, and produced in environmentally sustainable ways
+
Acceptability
- Access to culturally acceptable food, which is produced and obtained in ways that do not compromise people's dignity, self-respect or human rights
+
Agency
- The policies and processes that enable the achievement of food security
X
Poverty & Hunger
- The disparity in political economic society that correlates the growing gap between the rich and poor in society, dictates who has food and who is going hungry.
Food Security = ((L + P + C&L) / (5 A's)) X (P+H)
or
Food Security = (A group of people + a set of ideas + their climate & landscape) / (Who are trying to grow, produce and distribute food in their human environment) X (While overcoming challenges and barriers related to Poverty and Hunger)
Legend:
Labour
- Creating Jobs
- Volunteer Help
- Social Enterprise
- Youth/Elder Engagement
+
Philosophy
- Indigenous Wisdom (Permaculture & Sustainability)
- Urban Farming
- Commons
- Modes of Organizing: Unregistered Associations of Persons, Co-operatives, Non-Profits, Companies,
+
Climate & Landscape
- Weather Patterns
- Natural Barriers & Pathways to growing
/
Availability
- Sufficient food for all people at all times
+
Accessibility
- Physical and economic access to food for all at all times
+
Adequacy
- Access to food that is nutritious and safe, and produced in environmentally sustainable ways
+
Acceptability
- Access to culturally acceptable food, which is produced and obtained in ways that do not compromise people's dignity, self-respect or human rights
+
Agency
- The policies and processes that enable the achievement of food security
X
Poverty & Hunger
- The disparity in political economic society that correlates the growing gap between the rich and poor in society, dictates who has food and who is going hungry.