Second, I study diet quality over the benefit month, and find that it worsens, potentially compounding the harmful consequences of cyclical food insecurity. Third, I find that kids bear less of the burden of the consumption cycle than adults, and that much of this difference may be driven by...
Ruth Aceng, Minister of Health, said beyond the Ebola outbreak that the country is facing, there are other health emergencies that threaten the life of Ugandans. Aceng said WHO's support will help strengthen the fight against the impact of drought and food insecurity in the country.■...
These events naturally had impact on food accessibility immediately. Even before lockdown was announced, household items in supermarkets were subject to hoarding (Sim, Chua, Vieta, & Fernandez, 2020) and this continued after the announcement. In some cases, this also resulted in restrictions on th...
I’ve seen this firsthand through the Gates Foundation’s work in sub-Saharan Africa, where food insecurity is driven by low agricultural productivity and weak infrastructure. Yields in the region remain far lower than in Asia or Latin America, in part because farmers rely on rain-fed agricultu...
cyclones and floods that disproportionately impact the health and social well-being of older people.Even within the first 3 years of the UNDHA,nine of the 11 Member States in the South-East Asia Region experienced natural disasters1.These local contextual issues are also reflected in the ...
we were so poor so we had to share a room together. so imagine three individuals in one room for most of the year. it was that… it was a combination of a lot of things. you want to make your parents proud. then you had elements of outsiders trying to divide what we had. [...
(0.081) Italic values represent significance at the 5% level The regression models showed that men who reported increases in substance use during the COVID-19 lockdown reported significantly greater increases in all 3 measures of sexual behavior, but there was no impact on sexual behav- ior of ...
Rather than focusing on production principles, this article explores the interrelations between farms and farming systems in the global food system. Evaluating farming systems around the world, we reveal a bewildering diversity. While family farms predominate, these range in size from less than 0.1 ...
Repayable financing does not constitute revenue as such, but it is a means for bridging a finance gap. The costs of repayable financing are often absorbed through tariffs, unless a subsidy is provided to write off part of the debt (WHO, 2017). Several international donors emphasize national ...
Aotearoa New Zealand is exposed to almost every geological and weather-based hazard [1], with the most frequent being floods. Significant flooding is estimated to occur roughly every eight months [2]. In the decade between 2013 and 2023, there were 41 events listed as relating to floods, wit...