Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 ignited the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. Ukrainian government agencies, civil society organizations, and international agencies have gathered an unprecedented amount of data about the impact of war on the environment, which is oft...
Reducing the impacts of natural disasters and hunger has become a central issue for both developing and developed countries. Research has focused on western disaster management strategies rather than African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS). However, rich and det...
The researchers examined individuals who were exposed to the Dutch Hunger Winter, which took place at the end of World War II when the occupying German army blockaded the western provinces of the Netherlands exposing approximately 4.5 million people to a severe famine. This created a natural experi...
Worldwide hunger situation affects around 820 million people [1], of which approximately 2.4 million are Colombians [2]. Different strategies can be used to reduce hunger; however, it is always important to invest in local traditional options, that usually can be associated with a job opportunit...
However, 2.3 billion people (29.3%) worldwide still suffer from a moderate or high level of food insecurity (FAO 2022b). Beyond the goal of zero hunger, the world faces the challenges of achieving the 1.5-degree warming target and staying with the planetary boundary for land use to protect...
Understanding the determinants of nutrient intake and the influence of nutrition on performance is critical in designing policies to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. A series of studies undertaken by the authors, which are synthesized here, analyzes the influence of prices, income, and women's schoo...
development goals would see the greatest benefits from ambitious climate action. Negative socio-economic impacts from climate action on poverty, hunger, and economic growth will require specific corrective policies. While our analysis does not quantify the negative effects of less ambitious climate policy...
Plant disease outbreaks pose significant risks to global food security and environmental sustainability worldwide, and result in the loss of primary productivity and biodiversity that negatively impact the environmental and socio-economic conditions of a
Due to rapid population growth and the limitation of land resources, the sustainability of agricultural ecosystems has attracted more attention all over the world. Human activities will alter the components of the atmosphere and lead to climate change, which consequently affects crop production badly. ...
3.2 Seismic activities in the recent millennium of China China has become one of the most tectonically active regions in the world, in response to the FAN Jiawei et al.: Impacts of seismic activity and climatic change on Chinese history in the recent millennium 2333 Figure 1 The climatic and...