根据第一段中的“Food deserts often go hand in hand with food insecurity. "以及最后一段 中的"While mainstream grocery stores with an affordable variety of food may be lacking or far away, many communities in food deserts do actually have access to food.”可知短文主要讲述食物沙漠(食物匮乏)...
Food deserts have been widely studied in Western contexts but rarely in transitioning economies and never within a rainforest. The Brazilian Amazon is a rapidly urbanizing region with high levels of poverty and food insecurity, providing an ideal context in which to explore this current research ...
How- ever, most of the research on food insecurity in Namibia has tended to focus on the rural areas of the country.10 While poverty and urban liveli- hoods in Windhoek have been a recurrent subject of research over the years, urban food insecurity per se has been a neglected topic.11 ...
24]. Households that live in big cities that are well connected to global food systems and have higher income levels have higher dietary diversity [35]. However, the pricing of food products in some of these markets can also
Size of a household is among the major factors contributing to the food insecurity of the rural small-holder farmers, especially when the dependency ratio is higher. The larger the dependency ratio, the higher is the burden to the active members of the family to feed the household, and hence...
Therefore, targeted support programs for vulnerable groups should be implemented to ensure they receive adequate food during times of food insecurity wherein the victims' health status is imperatively to be bettered. 展开 关键词: FOOD security CITIES & towns HOUSEHOLD surveys GROCERY shopping ...
Inflation Hasn’t Increased U.S. Food Insecurity Despite rising grocery prices, a little more than 1 in 10 Americans can’t get enough to eat, which amounts to around the same share of the country that was experiencing food insecurity before the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Comparing UA and PUA in the Global North and Global South reveals both similarities and differences. Certainly, the discussion of food security in urban areas differs. While food insecurity re-emerged in the cities of the Global North, and with it UA, it never went away in the Global South...
Several government nutrition assistance programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) and free or reduced-price school meals, exist to alleviate food insecurity among low-income households in the U.S. During the COVID-19 pandemic, access to and utiliza...
Why Food Insecurity Persists in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Existing Evidence. Food Secur. 2022, 14, 845–864. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Watkins, K.; Gutierrez, M.; Matheson, I. Western Africa’s Missing Fish: The Impacts of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing ...