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From famine to food security: Lessons for building resilient food systems

Armed conflict combined with prolonged drought has put about 20 million people at risk of starvation and death in Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, and northern Nigeria.
Wongnaa, Camillus Abawiera, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Dorosh, Paul A.   +2 more
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Population dynamics of generalist and specialist strategies under feast-famine cycles. [PDF]

PLoS Comput Biol
Niimi R, Furusawa C, Himeoka Y.
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Barriers and Enablers for Effective Support Coordination in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Support coordinators act as intermediaries between the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and participants, facilitating access to funded supports. To optimise outcomes, they must navigate NDIS complexities, identify services that meet individual needs and engage with diverse stakeholders.
Sharyn McDonald, Lee Cubis, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prenatal famine exposure restricts genetic effects on birth weight with implications for metabolic disease risk. [PDF]

Commun Med (Lond)
Taeubert MJ, van den Kieboom K, Zhou J, Kuipers TB, Conley DC, Li C, Wang S, Wang T, Belsky DW, Lumey LH, Heijmans BT.   +10 more
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Australian Practitioners' Beliefs, Confidence, and Training Needs for Delivering Behaviour Support to Children and Young People in Out‐of‐Home Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) frequently present with complex behavioural needs. In New South Wales (NSW), behaviour support plans (BSPs) are mandated when restrictive practices, including psychotropic medication, are used. Little research has examined whether the statutory workforce is adequately prepared to meet behaviour support ...
Manisha Abayakoon Stanborough, Kelly‐Ann Allen, Emily Berger, Mikaela Stanborough, Erin Leif   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Syrian Famine and the Armenian Atrocities

, 1919
This volume contains the text of a lecture delivered by Thérèse Philippe Bresse at St. Anthony’s Institute in Alexandria in 1919 in which she provides her own first hand account of events in the middle east in the early twentieth century.

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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forty years later: adult health and non-communicable disease following the 1984-1985 Great Ethiopian Famine - a retrospective cohort study. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Abera M, Ameya G, Berhane M, Grijalva-Eternod CS, Lelijveld N, O Donovan G, Wimborne E, Anujuo K, Kirolos A, Laurentya O, McKenzie K, Grenov B, Wondafrash M, Gonzales GB, Girma T, Abdissa A, Thompson D, Opondo C, Cole T, Koulman A, Swann J, Wells JC, Kerac M, CHANGE Study Collaborators Group.   +23 more
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Supporting Aged Care Worker Wellbeing: A Qualitative Document Analysis of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aged care work is physically and emotionally demanding. Workers can feel disempowered, vulnerable and at increased risk of experiencing work‐related stress. This in turn can result in sub‐optimal care and staff shortages. This study aimed to investigate what provisions exist within Australia's strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to ...
Sharon Stoddart, Kate Churruca, Maree Saba, Janet C Long, Peter D. Hibbert, Amy Nguyen, Viviana Wuthrich, Bronwyn Newman, Leonard C. Gray, Hilda Bø Lyng, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Louise A Ellis   +11 more
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Sufficiency and Sufficiency and Sufficiency’: Revisiting the Bengal Famine of 1943-44 [PDF]

The paper builds on media reportage of rice and other prices, political controversies, and food drives, to review the historiography of the Great Bengal Famine.Famine, Bengal, Entitlements ...
Cormac Ó Gráda
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