10. Food and Water
Chapter Learning Objectives
- Describe the connection between the production of food and equity.
- Explain the role that government crop subsidies play in nutrition.
- Discuss the role that tax breaks and food banks play in food insecurity.
- Identify the forces that influence a family’s food purchases.
- Explain the critical factors related to children and access to nutritious food and clean water.
- Name the factors that affect a family’s access to safe water and sanitation.
- Describe the government’s role in the water and sanitation system.
- Determine whether access to safe water and sanitation is a human right or not.
- Describe the multi-directional relationship between social structures and the ways that individuals and families access food and water.
- Apply theoretical concepts to one’s own observations and experiences with food and water.
