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IPM - Biological and integrated management of desert locust
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2022 Locusts have caused periodic disasters in the recorded history of humankind. Up to now, locust disaster is still the biggest threat to the world's agricultural production.
Shuang LI +4 more
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M/C Journal, 1999 In today's society there is evidence of a culture of the 'empowered consumer' -- an image of the consumer as a citizen rather than a subordinate. In fact, human rights language is increasingly coming to the fore in the consumption debate. The consumer has been allocated rights by the United Nations whereby all human beings are born free ...
Sinead Furey +2 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 Research evaluating the impact of new food stores in “food deserts” have reported limited impact on eating and health outcomes of residents who live nearby.
Mengni Yao +3 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 Food access is a major key component in food security, as it is every individual’s right to proper access to a nutritious and affordable food supply. Low access to healthy food sources influences people’s diet and activity habits.
Abrar Almalki +3 more
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Facilitating Undergraduate Learning through Community-Engaged Problem-Based Learning
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018 We used problem-based or experiential learning in our undergraduate Health Policy course to examine food deserts via a health impact assessment (HIA) assignment.
Ronica Rooks, Brooke Dorsey Holliman
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Effect of Drying Methods on the Chemical Composition, Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidant Activity of Nettle Leaves [PDF]
Journal of Desert and Environmental AgricultureThe nettle plant is an untapped source of human nutrition in Egypt. Also, information on its complete composition and the effect of different drying methods is scarce.
Abdelrhman Eltabakh +3 more
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An Aridamerican model for agriculture in a hotter, water scarce world
Plants, People, Planet, 2020 Societal Impact Statement Climate change is dramatically restructuring agriculture and damaging crops, food security, and human health, especially in deserts.
Gary Paul Nabhan +13 more
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International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL), 2020 Access to healthy, varied and affordable foods has a great impact on individual dietary patterns and diet-related health outcomes. Consequently, there is an increasing interest in identifying food deserts - areas with poor access to supermarkets or other food retailers that provide a wide range of healthy and affordable food.
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The effect of food deserts on gynecologic cancer survival
Gynecologic Oncology ReportsObjective: Living in a food desert is a known negative health risk, with recent literature finding an associated higher mortality in patients with cancers. Gynecologic cancers have not specifically been studied.
Nicole Lugo Santiago +8 more
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Living in Food Deserts and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease
Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019 Background Food deserts (FDs), defined as low‐income communities with limited access to healthy food, are a growing public health concern. We evaluated the impact of living in FDs on incident cardiovascular events.
Heval M. Kelli +16 more
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