This week on EnvironMental, Courtney did a deep dive into food insecurity.  

The long and short is that food insecurity is a trap - it's a cycle that is generationally difficult to escape from.  

It is highly correlated with high rates of violence and poverty and while there are solutions like using our food waste more wisely, the only real solution for food insecurity is providing a living wage.   

Here are Courtney's resources: 

- feedingamerica.org 

- Feeding Peace: An Investigation of the Relationship between Food Insecurity and Violence - Illinois state university https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=scced 

- National Center for Biotechnology Information - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2805706/ 

- Frontiers in Sustainable food systems - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00016/full