{"id":97,"date":"2024-07-19T21:12:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T21:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/?p=97"},"modified":"2024-07-23T05:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T05:05:03","slug":"week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week I started on the formatting of my literature review along with starting my collection of resources.&nbsp;To find most of my sources I looked through the bibliography on <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/2024gilovarietytrial\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/2024gilovarietytrial\/\">Sarah Dyers website<\/a>. Looking through these sources reignited my passion for public health and research. I felt burnt out on researching and taking notes last quarter, but this has gone away. The first few papers I read focused more on the public health parts of this project. In upcoming weeks Ill have more research on the anatomy and background of Gilos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1696\/2024\/07\/IMG_1221-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88\" width=\"690\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1696\/2024\/07\/IMG_1221-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1696\/2024\/07\/IMG_1221-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1696\/2024\/07\/IMG_1221-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1696\/2024\/07\/IMG_1221.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><figcaption>Orient express plant  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Culturally appropriate vegetables and economic development&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>As populations grow more diverse the demand for ethno-cultural vegetables (ECV) rises&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>ECV are those vegetables consumed by a group that shares a similar cultural heritage. &#8221;&nbsp;<\/li><li>This demand for ECV is see throughout different immigrant communities. Growing ECV is&nbsp;beneficial&nbsp;for not just one group but many other communities&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>As these vegetables are imported, they lose a lot of their&nbsp;Nutrional&nbsp;value (another benefit of growing ECVs closer to immigrant populations)<\/li><li>This market is a specialized niche market that requires a clear understanding of the cultural and socio-economic characteristics of the stakeholders in order for farmers to benefit from it&nbsp;<\/li><li>&#8220;Disparity in income makes price a very important factor in decision making and any policy that will support the purchase of ECV should prescribe policies that will reduce the cost of production of these vegetables. &#8221;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Grow ECVs locally to preserve their&nbsp;nutritional&nbsp;value and their health benefits. Gilo are crazy heathy but can&nbsp;lose&nbsp;these benefits when shipped from overseas&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Eggplants present and future&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Scarlet eggplant (gilos) is mostly cultivated in&nbsp;Asia&nbsp;and&nbsp;Africa&nbsp;but can be grown in many&nbsp;places&nbsp;across the world&nbsp;<\/li><li>Some&nbsp;African&nbsp;countries use&nbsp;Gillos&nbsp;as remedy for fevers&nbsp;dizziness&nbsp;convulsions&nbsp;and hypertension. Other&nbsp;varieties&nbsp;grown in&nbsp;Africa&nbsp;have been used to prevent malaria, increase lactation, and stimulate appetite&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Determinates of food security <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>(these notes are mostly quotes from the paper I read)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Since food is linked to cultural identity, for many moving to a new country having their cultural is a critical part of establishing life in a new place<\/li><li>&#8221;&nbsp;To improve food security for people with lived refugee backgrounds, governments and&nbsp;organizations&nbsp;should collaborate with the cultural communities with lived experiences of accessing cultural foods, appreciate their strengths, and&nbsp;recognize&nbsp;the value of social and cultural capital.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/li><li>&#8220;Especially for refugees there can be a lot of stress when moving to a new country so having foods, they are familiar with be in easy access is important\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><li>\u201cEating habits are driven by food availability, cultural and religious practices, societal norms, individual experiences, and taste preferences, and as such, food is intrinsically linked to identity and the maintenance of culture\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><li>\u201cFood Security (FS) exists when \u201call people at all times have physical,&nbsp;<em>social<\/em>, and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and&nbsp;<em>food preferences<\/em>&nbsp;for an active and healthy life\u201d&nbsp;\u201c&nbsp;<\/li><li>\u201cFood insecurity (FI) is when one or more of the conditions of FS is absent. This suggests that FI exists when cultural foods are not available, cannot be accessed, or are unable to be&nbsp;utilized.\u201d<\/li><li>\u201cProviding ECV fights food insecurity and supports food security in refugee and immigrant populations&nbsp;\u201c&nbsp;<\/li><li>To find cultural foods, people adapted to their new environment using social media and mobile phone apps to locate those foods [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0268830#pone.0268830.ref044\" target=\"_blank\">44<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0268830#pone.0268830.ref045\" target=\"_blank\">45<\/a>]. People travelled long distances, went to multiple stores, markets, community gardens, grew food in backyards, fished and foraged to obtain the variety of food they desired&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Even if supermarkets stocked&nbsp;cultural&nbsp;foods, some would be hesitant to shop there with language and cultural barriers presenting many issues&nbsp;<\/li><li>Want for familiar foods can also come from a place of&nbsp;mistrust&nbsp;of&nbsp;unfamiliar&nbsp;food safety&nbsp;<\/li><li>Mistrust in legal systems also plays into this&nbsp;<\/li><li>Community&nbsp;knowledge&nbsp;is key to locating and sharing ECV and other&nbsp;cultural&nbsp;foods<\/li><li>Availability was improved through shared horticultural knowledge and exchanging seeds of cultural foods [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0268830#pone.0268830.ref043\" target=\"_blank\">43<\/a>]. which also created new stable and sustainable foodways.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Cultural stigma against sharing that you are facing food insecurity.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I started on the formatting of my literature review along with starting my collection of resources.&nbsp;To find most of my sources I looked through the bibliography on Sarah Dyers website. Looking through these sources reignited my passion for public health and research. I felt burnt out on researching and taking notes last quarter, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/week-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-gregorio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}