Food insecurity is a major health problem that has pervasive effects on many human biological outcomes. In particular, there are compelling theoretical and empirical reasons to expect that the relationship between food insecurity may be directly related to mental health morbidities, and may be quantifia...
Food insecurity, defined as the lack of physical or economic access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food, remains one of the main challenges included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Near real-time data on the food insecurity situation
The phenomenon loosely labeled hunger in the 1980s is now being discussed as food security or insecurity. Food security is defined as access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life, and at a minimum includes the following: 1) the ready availability of nutrition...
Specific groups within households, such as children or women of childbearing age, could experience food insecurity [69, 70]. Future analyses should delve into food utilization at the individual level. Lastly, the definition of vulnerability in this paper is narrow, limiting our analysis to only ...
Nevertheless, about half of the global population is affected by food insecurity and malnutrition, a symptom of the dysfunctions of the current food system. This paper provides a review of the state of research on the sustainability of agro-food transitions, and the extent to which and in what...
Food insecurity is a leading public health challenge in the United States today. This is primarily due to the magnitude of the problem, 50 million persons are food insecure (i.e., they were uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food because they had insufficient money or other ...
other countries. But if this scenario should actually take place, Australia and New Zealand would probably see an influx of refugees from Asia and other countries experiencing food insecurity. The global average calorie supply post-war (Fig.5a) implies that extreme regional reductions (Fig.4) coul...
The paper draws on our previous work on conflict as a cause and effect of hunger and also looks at agricultural exports as war commodities. We review studies on the relationships between (1) conflict and food insecurity, (2) conflict and globalization, and (3) globalization and food ...
A growing body of research suggests that food insecurity is prevalent on college campuses. But according to a new paper from a team of University of Illinois experts who study food choice issues, just how many college students struggle with having enough to eat on a consistent basis is a diff...
In this paper we provide two arguments for the persistence of food insecurity in SSA. First, colonialism fundamentally disrupted and suppressed the existing food security systems, resulting in widespread poverty, chronic food shortages and malnourishment. By focussing political and economic development on...