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Introduction<\/h3>\nYou are a part of a global effort to increase access to education and empower students through \"open pedagogy.\"\u00a0 Open pedagogy is a \"free access\" educational practice that places you - the student - at the center of your own learning process in a more engaging, collaborative learning environment.\u00a0\u00a0The ultimate purpose of this effort is to achieve greater social justice in our community in which the work can be freely shared with the broader community.\u00a0\u00a0This is a renewable assignment that is designed to enable you to become an agent of change in your community through the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).\u00a0 For this work, you will integrate the disciplines of Anthropology; Urban Ecosystems; Sustainable Horticulture to achieve SDG #02: Zero Hunger\u00a0\u00a0Target 2.1: By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor\u00a0 and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient\u00a0 food all year round.\n\n<\/div>\n
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Learning Objectives<\/h3>\nIdentify similarities, differences, challenges, and creative opportunities provided by a local food desert, food mirage, or food swamp.\n\nExplain social and health effects of a food desert, food mirage, or food swamp in the local community.<\/span>\n\n<\/div>\n
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Purpose\/Rationale<\/h3>\nTo create a document that can be distributed in and around the\u00a0 community to help others seeking affordable and nutritional sources of food.\n\n<\/div>\n
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Instructions<\/h3>\nIntroduction:\n\nImagine you are living in an urban food desert, far from a farm where you can purchase\u00a0 healthy, affordable, locally grown produce (vegetables and fruit). We all need to eat but you\u00a0 do not have the money to take transit to the supermarket where you have the most choices.\u00a0 One time you walked past the local farmer\u2019s market and you could not believe what you were\u00a0 seeing: fresh, delicious-looking vegetables and fruit from nearby organic farms, but $5.00 for\u00a0 a head of lettuce was not in your wallet, and never would be: that the market was not\u00a0 accessible to people like you and was a food mirage. You moved to a new neighbourhood\u00a0 and found various grocery store options within walking distance, but along the way you are\u00a0 inundated with the temptation to spend your money on fast food or fancy beverages (food\u00a0 swamp).<\/span>\n\n<\/div>\nThere is a large and growing body of research noting that food deserts and food swamps can\u00a0 lead to malnourishment, undernourishment, and obesity. With obesity comes costs to human\u00a0 health, society, and the economy. While some consume too much for their needs, others\u00a0 suffer from hunger.\n\nThe 2018 Global Nutrition Report tracks country progress against the following targets: child\u00a0 overweight, child wasting, child stunting, exclusive breastfeeding, diabetes among women,\u00a0 diabetes among men, anaemia in women of reproductive age, obesity among women, and\u00a0 obesity among men.\n