Our findings suggest that food insecurity is a serious occupational issue for individuals who are unhoused and housed after homelessness. Implications from an OT perspective will be discussed. Primary Author and Speaker: Corinna Easton Contributing Authors: Abe Oudshoorn, ...
Despite adequate food supplies at the global level, many low-income countries experience food insecurity. Given that food deficits are projected to get even bigger in the future, the problem probably will only get worse. Added to the concern is the likelihood that global trade liberalization will...
Marsland and the DIEM team monitor 27 countries facing food crises and analyze the connections among climate change, conflict, migration, geopolitics, and economics. Analysts on the team use satellite imagery and GIS technology to create models that can detect livestock hardship and crop stress. Inpu...
Background: Food insecurity is an aspect of living conditions that is particularly important for quality of life, health, and subjective well-being. The implementation of the 8-item Food Insecurity Experience Scale in 147 countries in the 2014 Gallup World Poll provided an unprecedented opportunity ...
We estimate that 256 million individuals—77% of the population—live in households that have lost income during the pandemic. Attempts to cope with this loss are exacerbated by food insecurity and an inability to access medicine and staple foods. Finally, we find that student–teacher contact ...
This paper provides a systematic definition of food security, focusing on its different dimensions; examines the nature and magnitude of the different dimensions of food insecurity in developing countries; discusses the difficult tradeoffs that policy makers face in trying to address food security's mul...
Experience from developed countries and the emerging economies in Asia has shown that victory in gaining food security can [...] daccess-ods.un.org 发达国家和亚洲新兴经济体的经 验已经表明,如果各界努 力在技能和方法方面建设农村社区的能力,帮助将其生产联系起来,赚取和 创造现金收入,就能在获得粮...
Conflict is the most common cause of food insecurity. Foreign aid to countries emerging from conflict often allows a funded but brief window for the confirmation-testing and diffusion of agricultural innovation in affected areas. This paper asks the question: what lessons has agricultural research lea...
In-depth analyses of some birth cohorts that contributed to the present synthesis suggest that multiple mechanisms underlie seasonal wasting. Seasonal food insecurity coincides with peak energy demands during agricultural work periods, which, in turn, leads to undernutrition among pregnant and lactating ...
These differences by gender include biological factors related to stature, as well as social and economic determinants that men and women experience differentially. However, reflecting cross-sectional data, the age-associated decline was faster among men consistent with a previous study analysing European...