This is based on the evidence that agriculture in the 21st century will be undergoing significant demands, arising largely from the need to increase the global food enterprise, while adjusting and contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Global Food Insecurity aims at providing ...
Using data to forecast food insecurity helped one food bank prepare for the worst. Featured Insights Where are vulnerable populations, including those who are experiencing food insecurity, located in the United States? In this interactive map from McKinsey's Center for Societal Benefit through Health...
Global impacts of heat and water stress on food production and severe food insecurity Article Main Extraordinary events such as large volcanic eruptions or nuclear war could cause sudden global climate disruptions and affect food security. Global volcanic cooling caused by sulfuric acid aerosols in the...
Regional accuracies (Table3) highlight the limitations of the Landsat-based cropland maps. North and South America, which are dominated by large-scale industrial farming, have the highest accuracies. In Europe, Asia and Africa, the global map underestimates cropland area due to spatial resoluti...
How to Address Food Insecurity Stigma Students may be hesitant to ask for help out of fear of being judged, some observers say, due to a stigma associated with food insecurity. But colleges can shift the narrative by creating basic needs hubs on campus that include services like mental health...
Age of household head, gender of household head, and non-food expenditure had no significant association with food insecurity in terms of access to food, despite these covariates having significant associations in the previous studies (see Introduction). Education of household head, economic activity,...
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NAIROBI, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Kenya is considering putting in place an agricultural strategy to eliminate food insecurity in the next five years, a government official said on Tuesday. Andrew Tuimur, chief administrative secretary of the the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigat...
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Poor countries with high levels of food insecurity see benefits in reducing their reliance on global markets as it enables them to minimize the costs and risks associated with volatile world food prices (Chang, 2009: 6). Food is a basic human need, and the amount of food needed for an ade...