Agriculture, a cornerstone of human civilization, faces rising challenges from climate change, resource limitations, and stagnating yields. Precise crop production forecasts are crucial for shaping trade policies, development strategies, and humanitarian
Climate change has a substantial impact on crop production, which poses risks to food security globally1. The Secretary-General of the United Nations has highlighted that Least Developed Countries are particularly vulnerable to these risks, especially given rising food and energy costs2. Despite techno...
The Effects of School Feeding Programmes in Addressing Food Insecurity in the Mutale Municipality of Vhembe District, Limpopo Province in South AfricaR. Tshifhumulo
Recent evidence suggests an increasing number of people are unable to afford a healthy diet in low income food-importing nations, reflecting the impacts of rising consumer food prices [1]. In the Sahel region, the challenges to ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition keep expanding due to...
Food insecurity has been defined as the lack of consistent access to enough food for an active and healthy life. In other words, there are millions of people all over the world who suffer from a shortage of food and cannot tell if they will be able to fe
Forests can help rural households cope with food insecurity challenges in the face of climate change while also sequestering carbon and advancing other sus
The worsening droughts and economic shocks have led to increasing acute food insecurity in countries such as Haiti, Pakistan and Zimbabwe. Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, the Sudan, Nigeria and Haiti are the world'...
The projected population growth to 9.8 billion in 2050 [3] may increase this prevalence of food insecurity and malnutrition. Hence, increase of research into alternative nutritious and sustainable sources of food. Insect consumption also known as entomophagy has gained attention as a potential source ...
Millions of children around the world are impacted by hunger. Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia are the most affected regions but incidences of food insecurity are common in industrialized nations too. Hunger affects children’s physical and cognitive...
The ability to improve nutritional quality of staple food products makes amaranth particularly suitable for people prone to food insecurity (e.g. urban consumers of low socioeconomic status, smallholder and subsistence farmers) (Mlakar et al., 2010, Alemayehu et al., 2015). The amaranth plant ...