In South Africa, social grants and the use of wild foods have been reported as some ways to improve household food insecurity and reduce poverty. The study examined if social grants and consumption of wild foods alleviate food insecurity in South Africa. Household surveys and focus group ...
The objective of this study was to evaluate some biological indicators of the soil quality of a dystrophic Yellow Latosol (Oxisol) under different land use systems in Areia, Para铆ba, Brazil. Soil samples were taken form the plow layer (0-20 cm) at six sites: native vegetation (moist ...
Food insecurity and environmental degradation pose significant threats to health outcomes in South Asia, necessitating effective policy interventions. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of food insecurity and environmental degradation on health outcome indicators amidst global inflationary shocks ...
Zambia is a landlocked country in sub-Saharan Africa. It has a population of approximately 20 million people, of whom 32.1% were undernourished from 2020 to 2022 and in 2021, 90.0% were unable to afford a healthy diet [2]. Thus, food insecurity and malnutrition are major concerns in Zambia...
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Food insecurity in households in informal settlements in urban South Africa doi:10.7196/SAMJ.8927SAMJ: South African Medical JournalNaicker, N.Mathee, A.Teare, J.
[35]. However, the pricing of food products in some of these markets can also be too expensive for the urban poor, thus curtailing their dietary diversity [36,37]. Developing countries are the most exposed to unsafe foods and food insecurity and the least equipped to manage them. Africa ...
Food insecurity, the limited or uncertain access to nutritious food, which also includes limitations on the ability to obtain nutritious food in ways that are socially acceptable. Approximately 2.4 billion people worldwide (some 29.6 percent of the human
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9). The global South continues by far to carry most of this hunger burden. Of the world’s 795 million hungry today, 780 million (over 98%) are in the global South (FAO2015, 8–9). 220 million (27%) are in sub-Saharan Africa (FAO2015, 10), where a massive crisis in food secu...