In Harrisonburg, environmental racism manifests in limited access to resources, including food insecurity and disproportionate food access in areas such as the Northeast Neighborhood, the city's most prominent and longstanding African American community. Harrisonburg's Northeast Neighborhood is home to a ...
There may be an element of truth involved, though the science is still unclear. Certainly, salt and some carbohydrates such as sugar can be detected by taste buds in the mouth. Fats can apparently be detected by specialised sensors in human digestive tracts, calcium may be detectable via a p...
This ties in with the wider push for the technology-intensive Green Revolution and development of large-scale commercial agriculture in Africa as a response to food insecurity (Africa Progress Panel, 2014). However, such an imperative rather leaves aside family farming advocacy, with its origins ...
However, it also forecloses access to land and natural resources for local people and has the potential to aggravate poverty and food insecurity (Adams et al., 2004; Fisher & Christopher, 2007; Golden et al., 2011). Even though initiatives such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and ...
Immigration/migration and healthy publics: the threat of food insecurity Introduction Food systems transformation — or the process of making food systems more economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable — has become a core element of urban sustainable development agendas. Over 200 cities have...
The geography of supermarkets in Cape Town: Supermarket expansion and food access. Urban Forum. 2014;25:153–64 Springer Netherlands. Article Google Scholar Birhane T, Shiferaw S, Hagos S, Mohindra KS. Urban food insecurity in the context of high food prices: a community based cross sectional...
Further research is needed to inform policies and programs to mitigate food insecurity in low-wealth rural populations. Keywords: rural; food system; inequities; disparities; food security 1. Introduction Several studies have noted that the issue of poor diets has been curated by food system ...
This research study was conducted on a food desert university campus [11], in an area that is ranked as the 3rd highest for child food-insecurity in the nation when compared to all counties with over 10,000 hungry children [12]. Limited food variety and high cost are the most salient ...
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2e, 2020, pages 177-179 This chapter advances SDGs 2, 3 and 11 by providing an overview of global food insecurity and the proposed avenues to address it. Read more SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal...
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