Nourishing knowledge: Exploring food, nutrition and society
Our relationship with food – individually, collectively in the communities we live in, and globally – is being challenged and reimagined. At one end of the spectrum, it is about choice and alternative options. At the other end of the spectrum, it is a crisis where issues of food security, nutrition and sustainability present significant challenges.
Ryerson researchers are studying the topic of food through new lenses and leading the way to address sustainability and the socio-economic and environmental aspects of putting healthy food on tables.
This publication is made possible, in part, with the support of the Research Support Fund.
Intersection
Food security
“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.”
Source: United Nations World Food Summit (1996). Rome Declaration on World Food Security (external link) .
Food insecurity
“The inability to acquire or consume an adequate diet quality or sufficient quantity of food in socially acceptable ways, or the uncertainty that one will be able to do so."
Source: Government of Canada (2012). Household Food Insecurity in Canada: Overview (external link) .
