Food Insecurity (General Facts)
Onondaga County Food Insecurity
Campus Resources
Poverty, Unemployment, Obesity, & Environmental Injustices
100

Food insecure people are unlikely to be obese. (T/F)

What is False? --- Food insecure people are more prone to obesity
100

These regional resources help with food insecurity (name one).

What is Food Bank CNY/Brady Market/Samaritan Center/Hendricks Pantry/Beth's Bounty?

100

This ESF program collects donated food pantry items and other supplies to distribute amongst the student body, helping to combat food insecurity on campus.

What is Beth’s Bounty at SUNY ESF?

100

This is the number of people who still live in extreme poverty.

What is 736 milllion?

200

The percentage of college students nationally who are food insecure.

What is 48%?

200

These organizations provide opportunities to get involved in fighting food insecurity in Syracuse (name one).

What is Food Not Bombs/Meals on Wheels/IFC?

200

This Syracuse University Food Pantry, which in 2023 benefited between 200-250 students a week, provides food and personal hygiene items to university students.

What is the Hendricks Chapel Food Pantry at Syracuse University?

200

This is the number of people living in multidimensional poverty.

What is 1.3 billion?

300

The number (in millions) of people in the US suffering from hunger.

What is 44 million?

300

This term refers to how food insecurity systemically and disproportionately affects black communities.

What is food apartheid?

300

Founded by Syracuse University students, this initiative repurposes unused campus food to provide meals for local residents facing food insecurity.

What is the Food Recovery Network at Syracuse University?

300

This is the ratio representing adult obesity in America.

What is more than 1 in 8?

400

The country most affected by hunger and malnutrition (according to the 2023 Global Hunger Index).

What is the Central African Republic?

400

The number of people who are insecure in Onondaga County.

What is ~46,220 (out of the ~470,000 total population)?

400

This national program partners with dining halls throughout the country to allow students to donate unused meal swipes to peers experiencing food insecurity.

What is Swipe Out Hunger?

400

This is the amount of people who currently have no basic health care.

What is >400 million (& 40% lack social protection)?