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How does early-life famine experience influence household energy transition?
Heliyon, 2023 The transition of households towards cleaner energy is crucial for achieving sustainable development goals. However, the impacts and associated mechanisms of early-life experiences on household energy transition have not been considered.
Feiran Wang +4 more
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The Malawi 2002 Famine – Destitution, Democracy and Donors
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2008 The validity of two famine theories at the political level is assessed using the Malawi 2002 famine: (i) Amartya Sen’s thesis of a positive impact of democracy on famine protection and (ii) De Waal’s thesis stressing the importance of anti-famine ...
Olivier Rubin
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BMJ Open, 2021 Purpose The Dutch famine birth cohort study was set up to investigate the effects of acute maternal undernutrition of the 1944–1945 Dutch famine during the specific stages of gestation on later health, with a particular focus on chronic cardiovascular ...
Rebecca C Painter +4 more
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Clinical Epigenetics, 2023 Background Undernutrition in pregnant women is an unfavorable environmental condition that can affect the intrauterine development via epigenetic mechanisms and thus have long-lasting detrimental consequences for the mental health of the offspring later ...
Heike Eichenauer, Ulrike Ehlert
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 Background: No study has explored the modification effect of ideal cardiovascular health metrics (ICVHMs) on the association between famine exposure and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) so far.
Xiong Ding +9 more
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PLoS ONE, 2018 BackgroundPrevious epidemiologic studies have reported famine exposure during early life association with overweight or obesity in adulthood, but a consistent perspective has not been established to date.PurposeTo determine, by conducting a systematic ...
Jielin Zhou +9 more
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The trigger of Ethiopian famine and its impacts from 1950 to 1991
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 Ethiopia is an ancient state that emerged in the Horn of Africa. The country has an abundance of natural resources, a rich history, cultures, languages, and diverse physical landscapes.
Dagm Alemayehu Tegegn
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The development of the 1983-85 famine in northern Ethiopia [PDF]
In this thesis it is argued that famine is a concatenation process caused by a severe shock to the economy which in turn leads to a series of socio-economic adjustments by the affected population. If the economic shock is sufficiently prolonged, then
Cutler, Peter Vincent
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Environmental Research LettersFamine still exists in this world, hindering the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2: zero hunger. The history and the mechanisms of famine have been broadly studied; however, few studies have focused on quantitative and long-term analyses of ...
Soma Funahashi +2 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016 Objective: To investigate whether exposure to the Chinese Famine in different life stages of early life is associated with cognitive functioning decline in adulthood.Methods: We recruited 1366 adults born between 1952 and 1964 and divided them into fetal-
Chao Wang +7 more
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