Overview - Sustainable Development Goal 12.1.2 | Food security - Library Guides at Mentone Girls' Grammar School

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A person is food insecure when they lack regular access to enough safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life. This may be due to unavailability of food and/or lack of resources to obtain food. Food insecurity can be experienced at different levels of severity. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, n.d.)

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Goal 12.1.2 Food security | Overview: Keywords

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Climate change, Diet, Food insecurity, Food supply, Gene bank, GM / Genetic modification, Hunger, Malnutrition, Monoculture, Nourishment, Patent, Seed bank

Sustainable Development Goals | Alignment

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Goal 12.1.2 Food security | Current status

Around 9 million people die of hunger and hunger-related diseases every year, more than the lives taken by AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined... A child dies from hunger every 10 seconds Poor nutrition and hunger is responsible for the death of 3.1 million children a year. That’s nearly half of all deaths in children under the age of 5. The children die because their bodies lack basic nutrients. See also The World Counts for more details as well as information about the statistics that form the basis of this counter.

Goal 12.1.2 Food security | Overview: Articles

Climate Change and Population Health (Curson, 2018)
"The article discusses the correlation between climate change and the health of the population. Topics include the multiplying risks of climate change that lead to food insecurity, emerging health problems and droughts, the impact of climate change on the quality of air we breath and the dependence of the outcome of climate change on various factors like the degree of environmental change." (Curson, 2018)
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Reference / citation: Curson (2018) or (Curson, 2018)
Reference list / Bibliography: Curson, P. (2018). Climate Change and Population Health. Geodate, 31(2), 9–13. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=anh&AN=129882440&site=ehost-live&scope=site&authtype=ip,sso&custid=mggsvic
Reducing food insecurity among households with children is still a challenge for the United States (Bauer, 2018, July 25)
"Households across the United States continue to have difficulty in providing enough food for all their members at a given time during the year, due to a lack of resources. In 2016, 12.3 percent of households were food insecure. In households with children, 16.5 percent did not have consistent access to adequate food." (Bauer, 2018, July 25)
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Reference / citation: Bauer (2018, July 25) or (Bauer, 2018, July 25)
Reference list / Bibliography: Bauer, L. (2018, July 25). Reducing food insecurity among households with children is still a challenge for the United States. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/07/25/reducing-food-insecurity-among-households-with-children-is-still-a-challenge-for-the-united-states/

Explainer: What is a gene bank? (Kowalski, 2015, January 9)
"Gene banks also preserve cells or organisms that host unusual gene variants — genes with special traits. Those genes might later prove useful when some disease epidemic strikes, when the climate changes or when other factors threaten the survival of plants or animals." (Kowalski, 2015, January 9)
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Reference / citation: Kowalski (2015, January 9) or (Kowalski, 2015, January 9)
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Food Inequality, Injustice, and Rights. (D’Odorico, Carr, Davis, Dell’Angelo, & Seekell, 2019)
"As humanity continues to grow in size, questions related to human rights and the existing unequal distribution of food resources have taken on greater urgency. Is inequality in food access unjust or a regrettable consequence of the geographic distribution of biophysical resources? To what extent are there obligations to redress inequalities in access to food? We draw from a human rights perspective to identify obligations associated with access to food and develop a quantitative framework to evaluate the fulfillment of the human right to food. We discuss the capacity of socioeconomic development to reduce inequalities in per capita food availability with respect to the distribution of biophysical resources among countries. Although, at the country level, international trade shows the capacity to reduce human rights deficits by increasing food availability in countries with limited food production, whether it actually improves the fulfillment of the right to food will depend on within-country inequality." (D’Odorico, Carr, Davis, Dell’Angelo, & Seekell, 2019)
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Reference list / Bibliography: D’Odorico, P., Carr, J. A., Davis, K. F., Dell’Angelo, J., & Seekell, D. A. (2019). Food Inequality, Injustice, and Rights. BioScience, 69(3), 180–190. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=anh&AN=135497402&site=ehost-live&scope=site&authtype=ip,sso&custid=mggsvic
Future of the Fringe: Scenarios for Melbourne's Peri-Urban Growth, Buxton et al., (2020, Jan, 11)
"The growth of Melbourne's peri-urban region has resulted in significant change to population, housing landscapes, farming systems and transport demands over several decades. Critical environmental consequences include increased fire risk for housing, the proliferation of housing in rural landscapes, decreased water yields in some locations and increased infrastructure demands in rural areas. Urban growth on the fringes of some towns has resulted in long-term social, economic and environmental impacts. The changes have largely appeared as incremental at a regional scale. The processes of land fragmentation, housing development, population growth and land use change are continuing. Peri-urban regions of Melbourne have increased population and housing at rates in excess of those experienced in many parts of metropolitan Melbourne for over a decade. This development is spatially uneven, with high growth pressure on a number of localities, towns and landscapes where access to metropolitan employment, lower housing costs and the quality of local amenity has drawn inward migration. Population growth is also a feature of many locations where growth pressure is, nonetheless less intense. The peri-urban region is increasingly functionally aligned with social and economic trends in metropolitan Melbourne, with their local housing markets an expression of the broader housing markets of the city region. This population and housing growth is generally incremental in nature, and its implications are inadequately considered in discussions of broader growth within the metropolitan area. The consequences for these communities and the broader city-region are extensive, including; infrastructure pressures, socio-cultural impacts in rural communities, dilution of agricultural systems, pressure on habitat and native vegetation and impacts on water catchments." (Buxton et al., (2020, Jan, 11)
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Reference / citation: Buxton et al., (2020, Jan, 11) or (Buxton et al., 2020, Jan, 11)
Reference list / Bibliography: Buxton, M., Butt, A., Farrell, S., & Alvarez, A., (2020, Jan, 11). Future of the Fringe: Scenarios for Melbourne's Peri-Urban Growth, ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266874773_Future_of_the_Fringe_Scenarios_for_Melbourne's_Peri-Urban_Growth

Goal 12.1.2 Food security | Overview: eBooks

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Food: The New Gold by Kathlyn Gay
ISBN: 9781467701457
Publication Date: 2012
Did you know starvation kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined? Around the world, millions of people go to bed hungry every night. Farmers and ranchers produce enough food to feed everyone, but much of that food does not get to the people who need it most. In some places, food has become a precious commodity--almost like gold. In this book, author Kathlyn Gay explores the complicated interaction between food, business, politics, and the environment. She examines the international food aid system; giant "factory farms," which grow and slaughter animals using assembly-line techniques; and the genetic engineering of seeds, plants, and animals. These systems and practices promise to get more food to the people who need it--but the promises don't always pan out. Worse, many modern agricultural practices are harmful to the environment, to workers who product the food, and even to consumers who eat it. Gay explains that food politics will only become more complicated as Earth's climate grows warmer, bringing rising sea levels, shifting growing seasons, and shrinking freshwater supplies.
Let's Eat : Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet by Veness, Kimberley
ISBN: 9781459809406
Publication Date: 2017
All the food you eat, whether it's an apple or a steak or a chocolate-coated cricket, has a story. Let's Eat uncovers the secret lives of our groceries, exploring alternative—and sometimes bizarre—farm technology and touring gardens up high on corporate rooftops and down low in military-style bunkers beneath city streets. Packed with interesting and sometimes startling facts on agriculture around the world, Let's Eat reveals everything from the size of the biggest farm in the world to how many pesticides are in a single grape to which insect people prefer to eat.

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, n.d.)
"The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an important measure of global progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger. It gives an updated estimate of the number of hungry people in the world, including regional and national breakdowns, and the latest data on child stunting and wasting as well as on adult and child obesity. The report also offers analysis of the drivers of hunger and malnutrition" (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, n.d.)

Goal 12.1.2 Food security | Overview: Online resources

Voices of the Hungry | Food Insecurity Experience Scale (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, n.d.)
"Voices of the Hungry Project developed the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) to provide timely information on the adequacy of people’s access to food by asking them directly about their experiences. The FIES can be used to produce estimates of the prevalence of food insecurity at different levels of severity, key information for implementing policies aiming to realize the human right to food." (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, n.d.)
The Right to Food (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, n.d.)
"Generally understood as the right to feed oneself in dignity, the right to adequate food is a long-standing international human right to which many countries are committed. Over the last decades, a number of countries have developed and implemented constitutional amendments, national laws, strategies, policies and programmes that aim at the fulfilment for all of the right to food." (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, n.d.)
Sustainable Development Goal 2.1.2 Severity of food insecurity (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, n.d.)
"This indicator provides internationally-comparable estimates of the proportion of the population facing moderate or severe difficulties in accessing food. The Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) produces a measure of the severity of food insecurity experienced by individuals or households, based on direct interviews." (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, n.d.)

Nutrition portal (World Health Organisation, n.d.)
One of the aims of the WHO is a "world free from all forms of malnutrition where all people achieve health and well-being." (World Health Organisation, n.d.)
Global Food Security programme [UK]
"The UK’s main public funders of food-related research are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world’s growing population with access to safe, affordable and nutritious food, all of the time and in ways the planet can sustain into the future."

Goal 12.1.2 Food security | Overview: Videos

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Level 1 resource Film and video Using YouTube on campus help and instructions To view these video on campus remember to first login to your school Google account using your mConnect username and password. Click here for more help on using YouTube on campus.

If society endures an apocalypse what will we eat?! Seed vaults are our food-preservation time capsule for the future. (Seeker, 2016)

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Bibliography / Reference list: Seeker (2016). A Rare Look Inside The Doomsday Seed Vault Deep In The Arctic, [eVideo]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/uAl8dSpkNWs

"Nestled in the Svalbard archipelago lies a small unassuming-yet-sturdy building created to last forever. While it may look minimal, this building is one of the most important in the world because it holds the key to continual human survival. It houses the world’s largest—and most secure—collection of crop diversity. While the Svalbard Global Seed Vault isn’t the only genebank in the world, its seed collection is most likely to maintain funding while also withstanding war, natural disasters and climate change. Built by the Norwegian government and encouraged by the Crop Trust when the vulnerability of other genebanks came to light, the Global Seed Vault serves as a timeless record of crops throughout generations. It’s meant to ensure—regardless of what happens to the planet—that agriculture can survive and thus, the human race can survive." (Crop Trust, 2018)

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In text reference / citation: Crop Trust (2018) or (Crop Trust, 2018)
Bibliography / Reference list: Crop Trust, (2018). Svalbard GoPro, [eVideo]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/1b8onRQK-3E

Level 2 resource Film and video Using YouTube on campus help and instructions Did you know there are over 100,000 homeless people in Australia. Click HERE to find out more about Australian homelessness, and what local charities are doing to reuse wasted food to feed our homeless.

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"A Real Meal' & 'Urban Seed Kicthens'- Creating and sharing a meal with the marginlised & homeless communities of Melbounre." (Big Umbrella, 2020)

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Bibliography / Reference list: Big Umbrella, (2020). A Real Meal & Urban Seed Kitchens, [eVideo]. https://youtu.be/UNR36yQpZkw

"A ReaL MeaL- 'Melbourne's only on-street soup kitchen' now feeding over 600 ppl each week, staffed funded and run by its volunteers. A ReaL Chance- weekly youth outreach service, looking out for those that need a hand." (Big Umbrella, 2014)

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Bibliography / Reference list: Big Umbrella, (2014). A ReaL MeaL - Melbourne's only on-street soup kitchen, [eVideo]. https://youtu.be/AaABFPX8USE

Goal 12.1.2 Food security | Overview: Curriculum alignment

This Mentone Girls' Grammar School Sustainable Development Goals LibGuide supports the following Australian and Victorian curriculum outcomes.

Design and Technologies / Levels 9 and 10 / Technologies Contexts / Food and fibre production [VCDSTC057]
Investigate and make judgements on the ethical and sustainable production and marketing of food and fibre
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* examining emerging production technologies and methods in terms of productivity, profitability and sustainability, for example vertical farming, recirculation technologies in aquaculture
* investigating how digital technologies could be used to enhance food production systems, for example global positioning system (GPS) for managing animals, crop sensors or automated animal feeding or milking
* comparing the environmental impacts of intensive and extensive production systems and their contribution to food and fibre production
* investigating the interdependence of plants and animals in food and fibre production
examining the marketing chain of a range of agricultural products and outlining the effect of product processing and advertising on demand and price
* taking account of animal welfare considerations in food and fibre production enterprises
Design and technologies / Year 9 and 10 / Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding [ACTDEK044]
Investigate and make judgments on the ethical and sustainable production and marketing of food and fibre [ACTDEK044]
Critical and creative thinking [Australian General Capability.4]
"Critical thinking involves recognising or developing an argument, using evidence in support of that argument, drawing reasoned conclusions, and using information to solve problems. Examples of thinking skills are interpreting, analysing, evaluating, explaining, sequencing, reasoning, comparing, questioning, inferring, hypothesising, appraising, testing and generalising. Creative thinking involves generating and applying new ideas in specific contexts, seeing existing situations in a new way, identifying alternative explanations, and seeing or making new links that generate a positive outcome. This includes combining parts to form something original, sifting and refining ideas to discover possibilities, constructing theories and objects, and acting on intuition."
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The Australian General Capability is the national vocabulary identifying important general capabilities that schools should help students develop, in addition to content of particular learning areas. (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, n.d.)
Ethical understanding [Australian General Capability.7]
Exploring ethical issues and interactions with others, discuss ideas, and being accountable as members of a democratic community.
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The Australian General Capability is the national vocabulary identifying important general capabilities that schools should help students develop, in addition to content of particular learning areas. (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, n.d.)
Intercultural understanding [Australian General Capability.6]
The capacity to process or reflect on the meaning of experience is an essential element in intercultural learning. Reflecting to better understand the actions of individuals and groups in specific situations and how these are shaped by culture. Reflecting on their own responses to intercultural encounters and to identify cultural influences that may have contributed to these. Learning to ‘stand between cultures’ and mediate cultural difference.
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The Australian General Capability is the national vocabulary identifying important general capabilities that schools should help students develop, in addition to content of particular learning areas. (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, n.d.)

Unit 4 Food issues, challenges and futures | Area of Study 1: Environment and ethics

Key knowledge

"key issues of the challenge of adequately feeding a rising world population, with particular focus on proposed solutions to global food insecurity, including the potential contribution of technologies and improved equity in food access and distribution
key ethical principles and questions of concern to Australian food consumers, and the ways in which ethical concerns affect individual food choices and the range of foods available
the environmental effects of food processing and manufacturing, retailing and consumption in Australia, including food packaging, food transportation and food wastage
the environmental sustainability of primary food production in Australia, including use of fertilisers, pesticides and water, choice of crops and animals for farming, and risks associated with biosecurity, climate change and loss of biodiversity
the characteristics, challenges and advantages of different approaches and methods in farming and primary food production, including genetically modified food production and low-impact and organic farming.

Key skills

identify environmental and ethical questions and issues affecting food systems
define global food security and explain possible pathways to achieving food security
identify and explain diverse points of view in a range of food systems debates
examine an array of issues and identify opportunities for further research
apply research principles to clarify, analyse and draw conclusions on a selected topic
apply a range of practical food skills to demonstrate understanding of sustainable and ethical food choice and preparation
use equipment and techniques appropriately, apply principles of safe and hygienic food handling practices and demonstrate organisational and technical skills in relation to the preparation, cooking and presentation of food in a range of practical activities."

Victorian Certification of Education, Food studies, Study Design 2017-2021 (Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, 2016, p. 10-11.)

Sustainable Development Goal 12.1.2 | Food security: Overview

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Goal 12.1.2 Food security | Overview: Curriculum alignment

Unit 4 Food issues, challenges and futures | Area of Study 1: Environment and ethics

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