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The Emergency food assistance system - findings from the client survey : executive summary /

open access: yes, 2003
"Food Assistance & Nutrition Research Program."Cover title.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access ...
United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Economic Research Service.   +4 more
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On Intra-Annual Poverty in the U.S.: Prevalence, Causes and Response to Food Stamp Program Use [PDF]

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Poverty measurement with data whose reference period is one year masks family exposure to poverty that only lasts for part of the year. We use quarterly expenditure data and decomposable severity of poverty indexes to quantify consumption-based intra ...
Mykerezi, Elton, Mills, Bradford F.
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Household Food Security in the United States, 2005 [PDF]

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Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2005, meaning that they had access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members.
Carlson, Steven   +2 more
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Food insecurity, food assistance, and physical and cognitive functioning among older Americans.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
IntroductionFood insecurity is associated with adverse late-life health outcomes, including disability, dementia, and mortality. But its role in changes in physical and cognitive functioning remains unclear, as does the impact of food assistance ...
Usha Dhakal   +2 more
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Household Food Security in the United States, 2007 [PDF]

open access: yes
Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2007, meaning that all household members had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life.
Carlson, Steven   +2 more
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Exploring the associations of food and financial insecurity and food assistance with breastfeeding practices among first-time mothers

open access: yesPublic Health Nutrition
Objective: Social determinants of health (SDoH), such as food and financial insecurity and food assistance, are potentially modifiable factors that may influence breastfeeding initiation and duration.
Junia N de Brito   +4 more
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The WIC Program: Background, Trends, and Economic Issues, 2009 Edition [PDF]

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The mission of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children through age 4 who are at nutritional risk.
Frazao, Elizabeth, Oliveira, Victor
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The Impact of In-Kind Food Assistance on Pastoralist Livelihoods in Humanitarian Crises

open access: yes, 2017
Pastoralists rely on coping and adaptation strategies that have historically allowed them to achieve high levels of productivity, manage the hazards and unpredictability of life in the marginal areas that they occupy and moderate the impacts of shocks ...
Ayala, Ana P.   +6 more
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Territorial Analysis of Food Assistance in Italy: Implications for Policy and Planning

open access: yesLand
Food insecurity has increasingly emerged as a structural concern in high-income countries, yet its territorial dimensions and the role of local welfare infrastructures remain underexplored.
Davide Marino   +5 more
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Optimizations of α-amylase production by response surface methodology in immobilization Bacillus amyloliquefaciens ATCC 23350

open access: yesBiological Journal of Microorganism, 2016
Introduction: Production of an endogenous α-amylase from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens ATCC 23350 was studied and enhanced. Materials and methods: Protein and carbon sources were analyzed for free and immobilized bacterial cells and number of beads ...
Hamid reza Samadlouie   +3 more
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