Lotter D (2014) Facing food insecurity in Africa: why, after 30 years of work in organic agriculture, I am promoting the use of synthetic fertilizers and herbicides in small-scale staple crop production. Agric Hum Values 10:100. doi:10. 1007/s10460-014-9547-x...
The article discusses food insecurity in North Korea which dates back to the late 1980s. Several causes of food insecurity in the country are cited, including the lack of arable lands, low fertility soils, and inefficient farming schemes. The direness of food insecurity led the country to acce...
Food insecurity, defined as the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, is emerging as a critical factor shaping long-term health outcomes, especially for children. As physicians face rising rates of childhood obesity, two studies published in JAMA Pediatrics link fo...
There is a smaller literature on the role of systemic and structural factors that impede engagement along the HIV care continuum for this population of PLWH. We define systemic barriers as those that involve entire complex systems, such as political, legal, education, economic, health care, and ...
Yet Judd is most grateful to the U.S.A. for the opportunities it has provided her. “I went from welfare to millionaire. I was raised by a single parent. We had food insecurity and we lived on food stamps,” Judd toldUs. “I am forever grateful because America showed me that regardl...
is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong in Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the ...
The number of Americans who are not sure where their next meal is coming from or where they are going to live is growing, putting major stress on parents struggling to provide food and housing for their families. After a years-long decline, food insecurity rates have skyrocketed in the U...
3. Food Guarding A cat that is growling while eating or close to the food bowl may be resource guarding. Certain cats make growling-like noises when eating, warning others to not attempt to steal their food similarly to dogs. Although the precise meaning of this is unknown in felines, ...
Who Are America's Poor Children? Examining Food Insecurity Among Children in the United States Fourteen million children live in poor families (that is, families with income below the federal poverty level, which is $22,050 a year for a family of four in 2009). There is a wide body of ...
No one in America is starving to death, butmillionslive with food insecurity. Food insecurity is“the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.” According to HUD, as of 2017, there were around554,000homeless people in the United States on...