The prevalence of food insecurity was higher among households headed by unemployed persons. Education and economic factors are the mechanisms through which unemployment leads to food insecurity. Lack of education reduces the chance of employment and the quality of jobs engaged in whilst the economic ...
AGING AND THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF FOOD INSECURITY IN AN URBAN MINORITY NEIGHBORHOODRecent AARP (2015) and the USDA (2011) reports reveal increasing rates of "food insecurity" (lack of access and nutrition) among older adults in the U.S. In many urban minority communities, the existence of "...
Food safety is integral to food security and is increasingly becoming a significant concern in the urban areas of Africa, which are rapidly growing in population. In the case of Ghana, many urban households depend on traditional open-air markets for most of their food needs. However, these urb...
Food insecurity remains a visible reality among this segment. Yet, it is scarcely documented. This paper describes levels and determinants of experiential household food insecurity (HFI) in an underserved urban slum of Delhi (India) and reports the internal validity and reliability of the measure ...
Intentional efforts to limit food intake in this sample were correlated with increased ED pathology. Although it is not surprising that adults experiencing food insecurity engage in intentional DR, this study adds important information about why food insecure adults engage in DR and highlights the ...
Summer is a vulnerable time for 1 in 3 African American children who live in food insecure households. We examined the factors that affect food insecurity among African American households with children during the summer by rural and urban setting. We conducted concept mapping with 38 African ...
ADDIS ABABA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Food insecurity is rapidly worsening in Eastern Africa as an estimated 81.6 million people including internally displaced people (IDPs), refugees and host communities in rural and urban areas are facing high acute food insecurity, the United Nations World Food Prog...
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The rapid urbanisation underway in South Africa is having serious repercussions on the food system’s ability to provide food to urban dwellers (Frayne et al., 2010). More than 60% of South Africa’s population now live in urban areas and rely on purchasing their food. Supermarkets have ...
that infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life, evidence is scarce on how the mother’s undernourishment status at delivery and maternal dietary factors influence human milk (HM) composition during the first 6 months of life in regions with high food insecurity. The...