Associations of food insecurity with body mass index among baby boomers and older adultsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 6 - Trang 423-433 - 2014
SangNam Ahn, Matthew Lee Smith, Mark Hendricks, Marcia G. Ory
Increasing obesity levels portend a challenging societal healthcare issue, while the current economic crisis may foster food insecurity, characterized by limited or uncertain access to adequate food. This study examines associations among food insecurity, meeting recommendations for dietary and physical activity patterns, and body mass index (BMI) among baby boomers and older adults completing the...... hiện toàn bộ
The 2007/2008 food price acceleration in Namibia: an overview of impacts and policy responsesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 59-71 - 2012
Sebastian Levine
This paper provides an overview of the short-term household-level effects and the national policy responses in Namibia to the rapid acceleration in food prices in 2007/2008. Price increases are found to have disproportionately affected low-income households, who have higher relative shares of food expenditure and whose own-production was reduced due to crop failures, and urban households who rely ...... hiện toàn bộ
Farmer demand for certified legume seeds and the viability of farmer seed enterprises: Evidence from MyanmarSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2023
Myat Thida Win, Mywish K. Maredia, Duncan Boughton
AbstractLegume seed systems in many developing countries are characterized by low availability of certified seeds because the private sector is often absent, and the public sector has limited capacity to produce such seeds. Farmer seed enterprises (FSEs) are therefore increasingly promoted as alternative suppliers of certified and in some instances, quality declare...... hiện toàn bộ
Why rational argument fails the genetic modification (GM) debateSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2018
Lucy Mallinson, Jean Russell, Duncan D. Cameron, Jurriaan Ton, Peter Horton, Margo E. Barker
Genetic modification (GM) of crops provides a methodology for the agricultural improvements needed to deliver global food security. However, public opposition to GM-food is great. The debate has tended to risk communication, but here we show through study of a large nationally representative sample of British adults that public acceptance of GM-food has social, cultural and affective contexts. Reg...... hiện toàn bộ
Connecting the food and agriculture sector to nutrition interventions for improved health outcomesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 14 - Trang 657-675 - 2022
E. Duncan, L. Ashton, A. R. Abdulai, T. Sawadogo-Lewis, S. E. King, E. D. G. Fraser, S. Vosti, J. Haines, F. Knight, T. Roberton
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger, multi-sectoral strategies to improve nutrition are necessary. Building towards this goal, the food and agriculture sector must be considered when designing nutritional interventions. Nevertheless, most frameworks designed to guide nutritional interventions do not adequately capture opportunities for integrating nutrition interventions wit...... hiện toàn bộ
The role of international trade in managing food security risks from climate changeSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 275-290 - 2015
Uris Lantz C. Baldos, Thomas W. Hertel
International trade plays an important role in facilitating global food security in the face of a changing climate. In considering this issue, it is useful to distinguish between two different time scales: inter-annual and inter-decadal. Inter-annual adjustments in international trade can play an important role in shifting supplies from food surplus regions to regions facing food deficits which em...... hiện toàn bộ