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Cost of a healthy and sustainable basic food basket in Brazil between 2009 and 2024. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Saude Publica
Verly Junior E   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source

Development, content validity, and reliability of an instrument to assess the commercialization of food and beverages in school canteens in Brazil. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Bras Epidemiol
Borges LD   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of rivers on seabird foraging ecology

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rivers act as vital arteries to the world's oceans, delivering fresh water and nutrients that sustain marine ecosystems. Globally, river flow increasingly is being altered by climate change and anthropogenic pressures; yet the significance of rivers to predatory marine species, such as seabirds, and the extent to which river‐related changes ...
Julia B. Morais   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

Purchase of food from the new staple food basket in low-income Brazilian households. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Saude Publica
Silva MALD   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Perspectivas para segurança alimentar e nutricional no Brasil Prospects for food and nutricional safety in Brazil

open access: yesSaúde e Sociedade, 2003
O presente texto faz uma avaliação do conceito de segurança alimentar demonstrando como a sua definição estabelece limites e prioridades para as políticas sociais. Considerando que é dever do Estado garantir o acesso de todos os cidadãos aos alimentos quantidade suficiente, com qualidade e regularidade, o artigo apresenta os contornos do Programa Fome ...
openaire   +1 more source

A roadmap to key traits of invasive Drosophilidae

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biological invasions have intensified in recent decades, mostly driven by international trade and travel, raising significant concerns, particularly regarding insect pests. Once non‐native species establish, they can disrupt natural ecosystem stability, undermine agroecosystem sustainability and cause substantial economic losses.
Gwenaëlle Deconninck   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

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