{"id":14861,"date":"2020-07-02T19:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T19:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/?p=14861"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:04:04","slug":"week-5-lets-put-an-end-to-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2020\/07\/02\/week-5-lets-put-an-end-to-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5: Let&#8217;s put an end to Food Insecurity!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Article link:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maggiemcgrath\/2020\/06\/09\/is-there-a-hack-for-solving-food-insecurity-these-young-leaders-think-they-found-a-solution\/#3d6961d87257\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maggiemcgrath\/2020\/06\/09\/is-there-a-hack-for-solving-food-insecurity-these-young-leaders-think-they-found-a-solution\/#3d6961d87257<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video Link: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/video\/6162469571001\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2020\/07\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"New report reveals 30,000 Detroiters do not have access to healthy ...\" class=\"wp-image-14863\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food insecurity is a prevalent issue that affects over 48% of Detroiters. This inequality is due to layers of problems that have left families facing starvation and lack of proper nutrition. I have always been passionate about addressing the food desert problem in Detroit and it was comforting to find an article on Forbes that focused on young entrepreneurs that address this problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The entrepreneurs created: The Food Chain, a digital platform to connect information about food surpluses and allowing suppliers\u2014including grocers and restaurants\u2014to access distribution networks. With this network, it eliminates food waste and helps people combat food insecurity with access to nutritious food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moving forward I would like to find different organizations such as &#8220;The Food Chain&#8221; where I can help distribute food to others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article link:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maggiemcgrath\/2020\/06\/09\/is-there-a-hack-for-solving-food-insecurity-these-young-leaders-think-they-found-a-solution\/#3d6961d87257 Video Link: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/video\/6162469571001\/ Food insecurity is a prevalent issue that affects over 48% of Detroiters. This inequality is due to layers of problems that have left families facing starvation and lack of proper nutrition. I have always been passionate about addressing the food desert problem in Detroit and it was comforting to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[313,314],"class_list":["post-14861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dcerp-2020","tag-food-insecurity","tag-fooddeserts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14864,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861\/revisions\/14864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}