Glossary

*All glossary terms were taken directly from the LFS 350 website*  http://lfs350.landfood.ubc.ca/

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) guiding principles –

  • Everyone has something to contribute
  • Relationships matter; they build community
  • Citizens of the community, rather than external experts, are at the centre of development
  • Leadership is distributed throughout the community (remember the Social Change Model of Leadership?)
  • Meaningful engagement occurs through dialogue and active listening among community members
  • Institutions exist to serve the community

Community Food Security – all individuals in a community having access to affordable, safe, culturally appropriate, ecologically responsible and nutritionally adequate food at all times.

Food Insecurity – the inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints.

There are three classifications of food insecurity based on participants’ responses regarding presence of food insecure situations in the household over the last 12 months:

  1. Marginal – Worry about running out of food and/or limit food selection because of lack of money for food.
  2. Moderate – Compromise in quality and/or quantity of food due to a lack of money for food.
  3. Severe – Miss meals, reduce food intake and at the most extreme go day(s) without food.

Food Justice – represents “a transformation of the current food system, including but not limited to eliminating disparities and inequities” that constrain food choices and access to good food for all.

Four characteristics and principles of food justice to consider:

  1. Acknowledging and confronting historical, collective social trauma and persistent race, gender, and class inequalities.
  2. Designing exchange mechanisms that build communal reliance and control
  3. Creating innovative ways to control, use, share, own, manage and conceive of land, and ecologies in general, that place them outside the speculative market and the rationale of extraction
  4. Pursuing labor relations that guarantee a minimum income and are neither alienating nor dependent on (unpaid) social reproduction by women

Global Food Security – ensuring access to healthy, adequate, culturally appropriate food produced in an ecologically regenerative and socially just manner.