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What is food insecurity?
The term that describes the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
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What are the four pillars to food security?
Food access, availability, utilisation, stability.
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What is Nutrition North Canada?
This retail subsidy program was implemented in the North by the Canadian government in 2011.
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What is the Nunavut Security Strategy and Action Plan?
Country Food, Store Bought Food, and Local Food Production are themes of this intervention
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What is mean age?
This value is 25.7 for Nunavut’s Inuit community, and 41 for Canada overall.
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What are the at-risk subpopulations?
Household children, especially with pre-schoolers, and single and widowed women.
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What are Country Foods, Store-Bought Foods, Local Food Production, Life Skills, Community Initiative and Policies & Legislations?
The six areas for strategic action in the Nunavut Food Security Strategy and Action Plan.
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What is Nutrition North Canada?
Use of the preceding retail subsidy, Food Mail, is an eligibility criteria for this program.
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What is a highschool diploma?
According to Statistics Canada, approximately 97% of individuals in this community over 15 do not have this.
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What are ncreased transportation costs and high food stroage costs?
Market food is expensive because of these.
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What is a lack of sufficient evidence/data?
Both interventions are limited by this.
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What is a market-driven program?
This program fosters competition and a regulatory framework to assess NNC’s awareness and adherence.
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