{"id":66728,"date":"2017-09-29T10:42:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=66728"},"modified":"2020-01-15T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T23:49:34","slug":"measuring-food-insecurity-among-uh-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/29\/measuring-food-insecurity-among-uh-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring food insecurity among UH<\/abbr> students"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> sustainablec community food systems students working in the field.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With a $406,874\u00a0United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)\u00a0grant<\/a>, University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>–West Oʻahu<\/span>’s<\/a> Albie Miles<\/strong> will measure the rate of food insecurity<\/a> in the student population across the UH<\/abbr> System and expand the outreach and education capacity of UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span>’s\u00a0sustainable community food systems\u00a0program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The research project was highlighted by UH<\/abbr> President David Lassner<\/a><\/strong> in a September 20\u00a0presentation<\/a>\u00a0to the UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents. “When we talk about food security for students, we’re not talking about whether or not we have food for a month in the islands in the case of a hurricane, but rather our hungry students,” said Lassner. <\/p>\n

Lassner said the work will help the UH<\/abbr> System get a better grasp on the scope of the problem and then look at solutions, whether it be food pantries, working with community organizations, or integrating other kinds of aid that may be available to students.<\/p>\n

The grant will allow Miles, an assistant professor of sustainable community food systems, to hire additional program staff, develop curriculum, teach new courses and provide outreach to Native Hawaiian and other students interested in traditional ecological knowledge and the influence of the food system on diet, public health, economics, sustainability and resilience.<\/p>\n

For more about the grant, go to E Kamakani Hou<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

—By Greg Wiles<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> Assistant Professor Albie Miles was awarded a\u00a0USDA<\/abbr>\u00a0grant for a food insecurity survey and\u00a0sustainable food systems\u00a0program expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[598,951,861,59],"class_list":["post-66728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-food","tag-sustainable-community-food-systems","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66728"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109390,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66728\/revisions\/109390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}