poverty has been long considered an underlying cause of food insecurity, especially under circumstances of extreme poverty and malnutrition [35]. The population with the lowest socioeconomic status consumes significantly lower amounts of fruits, vegetables, and dairy foods that those in higher socioecon...
Poverty worldwideThe most important statistics Number of people using food banks in the UK 2008-2024 Number of people using foodbanks in the UK 2024 by region Number of people using foodbanks in London 2011-2024 Percentage of children eligible for free school meals in England 2023, by region...
3. The double burden of malnutrition in SSA in numbers 4. Drivers of processed food demand and supply in SSA 5. Demand side: 50-year evolution of consumption of processed and away-from-home food in SSA 6. Evolution of the supply side of processed foods 7. Summary and conclusions Funding...
In the complex global food system, the dynamics associated with international food trade have become crucial determinants of food security. In this paper, we employ a community detection approach along with a supervised learning technique to explore the
Scoping Potential Routes to UK Civil Unrest via the Food System: Results of a Structured Expert Elicitation. Sustainability 2023, 15, 14783. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] HM Government, Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, London. Food Statistics in Your Pocket. 2024. Available online...
Livelihoods, poverty and equity Poverty is most prevalent in rural areas where people earn substantial income shares from agriculture (including marginalized groups such as Indigenous Peoples and female-headed households)21,22,23. Food systems provide employment for 1.23 billion people and (including hou...
Data analysis was conducted using SPSS and SPSS AMOS software using descriptive statistics, inferential statistics (chi-square, t-test, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression analysis), and structural equation modeling (SEM) Analysis. Results A total of 220 questionnaires were completed (97 males...
Nearly 3 million emergency food parcels were given out in the Trussell Trust’s UK wide network between 2022 and 2023, according to their latestreport. The following chart shows the number of food parcels delivered per 100,000 people in different regions across the UK. While London was the ...
An example is related to food poverty: an issue pertaining to different domains (social policies and health), which different groups of actors have been addressing from their own perspective (and made relevant in their own subsystems), e.g., charities distributing surplus food to people in ...
Market respondents’ summary statistics About 89% of the respondents in the market survey are women (Table3). The average age of respondents is about 44 years. About 23% of the retailers do not have formal education. This percentage is exceptionally high in Tamale, where about 52% of respond...