Informative: Resources for food Insecurity on HBCU campus
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food insecurity as a limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable food in socially acceptable ways (USDA, 2015). In the United States, food insecurity on college campuses is a growing problem, and students on some Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ campuses are particularly impacted in a negative way by this problem. According to Cady (2014), African American students on college campuses have higher percentages of food insecurity than the U.S. population as a whole. There are several reasons that account for this reality, including the fact that African Americans are generally among the lowest income and the fact that there are insufficient sources of food on campus (Cady, 2014, p. 268). This is continuously a problem that needs to be addressed by social workers and other community leaders, and campus administrators. There a...