Ogbole says they are on a campaign to end seasonal food scarcity in Nigeria. "Because we are the ones controlling everything that the plant required, we are not depending on seasons. So it's no longer seasonal farming. It is just farming anytime of the year, meaning we can plant any...
When a region experiences food scarcity and that population feels threatened by hunger, it will relinquish dependency on any political authority and take up arms in order to ensure its well-being (Paveliuc-Olariu, 2013). This is human survivalism. It is important for develo...
There is a critical need to identify solutions to current and future challenges of the world’s food system. One of the main challenges is that nearly one in three people in the world (2.37 billion) suffer from malnutrition (FAO et al.,2022; HLPE,2020). Global food systems have undergone...
He and his team are growing crops without soil at the technology-based farm they started three years ago ill Abeokuta. Ogbole says they are on a campaign to end seasonal food scarcityin Nigeria. "Because we are the ones controlling everything that the plant requires, we are not dependingon...
Swarna Sub1 in India, Samba Mahsuri in Bangladesh, IR64-Sub1 in the Philippines, and Ciherang Sub1 in Indonesia and Nepal are flood-tolerant varieties that have been released and are now being planted. Following 10–15 days of flooding, these varieties showed a yield advantage of 1–3 ...
mentioned by participants in the study areas. The impact of the economic situation on the possibility of access to safe and healthy options emerged as a differentiating factor. Keywords: food security;urban health;social determinants;Africa
Looking across resilience indicators for a sub-group of countries (Supplementary Fig.1.5.17), the data show that some countries (for example, the Philippines, Nicaragua and Indonesia) demonstrate relatively higher food price volatility or food supply variability than others (for example, the Netherlan...
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1.3–1.11), Oceania has the greatest scarcity in data overall, with very few diet quality indicators collected in that region and only for children in 4 of the 14 countries. Dietary data are collected in fewer countries of North America and Europe, northern Africa and western Asia, and Latin...
Rice production in the farm of Conversion group (1.83 ton/household/year) yielded less than the Non-conversion group (4.54 ton/household/year) (Table 9). Households of ‘Conversion’ group should purchase more rice than farmers of Non-conversion group. Households of Conversion group also spent ...