Over the past couple of years, several cases of the food scandal have been disclosed on various media. The problem of food security has become a hot button across society. The prevalence of food insecurity has greatly impacted public health, which the government could not afford to ignore, acc...
This article is the third in a series of historical reviews on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), exploring why agricultural production and irrigation schemes are underperforming, and how this contributes to high levels of food insecurity. The expression ‘food security’ emerged in 1974 following the Sahel...
Food insecurity in the context of HIV/AIDS: a framework for a new era of programming. Food insecurity can be both a consequence and a driver of HIV/AIDS. It is often difficult to disentangle these two roles of food insecurity, since the HIV ... R Frega,F Duffy,R Rawat,... - 《Foo...
Food insecurity is reflective of, and in turn contributes to, the poor health status of Inuit, and has been identified as one of the major policy challenges facing northern governments [7–15]. The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of research examining Inuit food systems, proving...
the attention of the local authorities. Similarly, there is a need for a reorientation of an approach which is beyond a quick and simple fix. Besides, an integration of efforts between different sectors at both local and national levels is sought to bring a lasting solution to food insecurity...
“At the end of the day, rates of food insecurity are rising and people are hungry,” Plata-Nino said. “It’s just up to the state to figure out how they’re going to feed them and meet those needs.” Blaise Mesa is a reporter with the Kansas News Service....
Also, the information needed to describe these aspects is often at the landscape level - and landscape attributes are only partly dependent upon production management at the field level. LCA studies usually focus on the field level and therefore, by not acknowledging such emergent aspects, the ...
is assessed that more than 2 billion people do not have consistent access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food, including not only those suffering from hunger but also those who are affected by moderate levels of food insecurity (United Nations Homepage2020b). Agricultural food production is ...
The common challenge facing South Asian countries is how to decouple food production from water and energy use intensity and environmental degradation to make it sustainable. The planned Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of zero poverty (SDG1), ending hunger and food insecurity (SDG 2), ensuring...
If, as is widely maintained, current food production is sufficient to feed the entire world population, we need to ask why food insecurity persists and, at the same time, why emerging diseases such as obesity have become a health problem on a global scale. Focusing on these growing trends ...