In Egypt, high food inflation has pushed residents to low-cost high-calorie meals. To combat food insecurity, the government subsidizes bread, wheat flour, sugar and cooking oil, many of which are the ingredients linked to weight gain. In Qatar, a country with one of the highest per ...
Food insecurityFood importsAfrican countriesPanel regressionFixed effects modelPredictorsIt has been envisaged that Sub-Saharan Africa would remain the region with the highest level of food insecurity over the 2015-2025 period. This study, thereforeOke, David...
The "Hunger Hotspots - FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity" report assesses 16 hunger hotspots around the world, analyzing their outlook for the period November 2024-March 2025. Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali are the countries considered to be "at the highest concern...
Household food security implies access to the food needed for a healthy and productive life. Lack of a... G Alcaraz V.,M Zeller - 《Research in Development Economics & Policy》 被引量: 21发表: 2007年 Community perspectives on food insecurity and obesity: Focus groups with caregivers of ...
In the five countries with the greatest calorie excess the average person has over 1,300 more calories available than the recomended 2,300. Those countries are (ranked beginning with highest excess): Austria United States Greece Belgium Italy ...
The article includes discussion of the concept of 'food security', policies that can be undertaken at the national level, a quantitative assessment of national food insecurity for a sample of LDCs, and an examination of the proposed international policies to enhance food security in food-deficit ...
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...
Chad was the country in the world where the highest share of the urban population was living in slums.
Food insecurity is still a major constraint to the development of many countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). The incidence of food insecurity is high, particularly among young children and other vulnerable groups. Unless specific intervention programmes are specifically targeted to...
Food insecurity was associated with subjective well-being within each of the 4 World Bank income classes of countries, with a larger magnitude of differences for the higher-income classes.Conclusions: Food insecurity was strongly and negatively associated with subjective well-being in a large global ...