Food, Culture & SocietyTimmer, C. Peter. 2015. Food Security and Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.Timmer, C. P., 2015, Food Security and Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger is So Hard, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, ...
Food Security and Scarcity explains what forms those challenges take in the long run and short term and at global, national, and household levels. C. Peter Timmer, best known for his work on the definitive text Food Policy Analysis, draws on decades of food security research and analysis to...
Food security is a critical part of the Sustainable Development Goals and government policies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The expression “food security” was introduced in 1974 following famines in the Sahel and Darfur (Gerlach,2015), and was initially focused on the production and availability ...
How is the food we ingest used? The possibilities are: We don’t mind any of those, except the fat production. There is an almost infinite number of ways how our bodies utilize energy. Or cut back on energy expenditure. What happened to the men in the Minnesota experiment was the ...
water scarcity concerns. Under the leadership of President Evo Morales, it has kept its word by dedicating almost $3 million in the past 13 years towardssecuring access to clean water, sanitation and irrigation systems.Investments are also still rising, which is promising for the citizens of ...
New discoveries are changing long-held views of the biggest, meanest, and most bizarre animals that ever flew.
While physical beauty has been argued to represent a scarce commodity due to genetic differences in physical attractiveness, we contend that the same notion of scarcity can apply to product aesthetics. In the current research, we investigate how the scarcity inherent in product aesthetics mobilizes th...
“Dogs that cached had more access to food during times of scarcity, which increased their survival and ability to reproduce.” 3. Resource Guarding Sometimes, dogs guard the areas where they’ve buried bones or favorite toys, a behavior known as resource guarding. While caching is perfectly ...
s food preferences. This was especially an issue for people who lived with others, most obviously those who were parents and were catering for children and spouses, but also for those who lived in shared households. In this context, the household makeup was a primary determinant of food ...
The major study question was, “Would the customer purchase organic food product that is good environment?” The second issue is, how do eco-label foods, knowledge about climate change, consumer education, and specific socio-demographic features impact the value of organic food consumption?