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Policy-oriented food insecurity estimation and mapping at district level in Pakistan

Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2022
Purpose. Food insecurity maps reveal the spatial variability of relevant indicators in relevant units in geographically disaggregated levels. This study is based on a systematic analysis of the least studied areas related to food insecurity in Pakistan ...
Rubina Kiran, Abdul Jabbar
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Experience of food security – vulnerability analysis. WWW i.e. Who, Why, Where

Wieś i Rolnictwo, 2015
The article takes as its starting point a discussion of “conventional wisdom” that asserts there is an equation that “poor = vulnerable”, i.e. “to be poor” means necessarily “to be vulnerable” and vice versa, and provides several examples confuting the ...
Paolo Santacroce
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Geographic and socio-demographic predictors of household food insecurity in Canada, 2011–12

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Household food insecurity is a potent social determinant of health and health care costs in Canada, but understanding of the social and economic conditions that underlie households’ vulnerability to food insecurity is limited.
Valerie Tarasuk, Andrée-Anne Fafard St-Germain, Andrew Mitchell   +2 more
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Household food insecurity and mental distress among pregnant women in Southwestern Ethiopia : a cross sectional study design [PDF]

, 2015
Background: There are compelling theoretical and empirical reasons that link household food insecurity to mental distress in the setting where both problems are common.
al'Absi, Mustafa, Belachew, Tefera, Gemechu, Teklu, Hoffman, Richard, Jebena, Mulusew Gerbaba, Kebede, Esayas, Kolsteren, Patrick, Lemessa, Fikre, Lemieux, Andrine, Nakajima, Motohiro, Segni, Hailemariam, Taha, Mohammed, Tariku, Yinebeb, Tesfaye, Markos, Workineh, Netsanet   +14 more
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Food insecurity status and its contributing factors in slums’ dwellers of southwest Iran, 2021: a cross-sectional study

Archives of Public Health, 2023
Background One major factor causing food insecurity is believed to be poverty. Approximately 20 million Iranians live in slums with a vulnerable socioeconomic context. The outbreak of COVID-19, on top of the economic sanctions against Iran, has increased
Hassan Joulaei, Parisa Keshani, Zohre Foroozanfar, Sima Afrashteh, Zahra Hosseinkhani, Mohammad Ali Mohsenpour, Ghasem Moghimi, Arash Homayouni Meymandi   +7 more
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Food insecurity, diet quality, and suboptimal diabetes management among US adults with diabetes

BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, 2022
Introduction A healthy diet is recommended to support diabetes management, including HbA1c, blood pressure, and cholesterol (ABC) control, but food insecurity is a barrier to consuming a healthy diet.
Sarah S Casagrande, Kai McKeever Bullard, Jean M Lawrence, Karen R Siegel   +3 more
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A competing risk model for health and food insecurity in the West Bank [PDF]

, 2010
This paper explores the interactions between the risk of food insecurity and the decision to health insure in the Palestinian Territories. The risk of adverse health conditions is insurable; the risk of food insecurity is a background risk and no market ...
Cavatorta, Elisa, Pieroni, L.
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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College students identify university support for basic needs and life skills as key ingredient in addressing food insecurity on campus

California Agriculture, 2017
A recent University of California (UC) systemwide survey showed that 42% of UC college students experience food insecurity, consistent with other studies among U.S. college students.
T Watson*, H Malan*, D Glik, S Martinez
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Delay Discounting and the Income-Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox in Mothers

Journal of Obesity, 2023
Food insecurity, defined as unpredictable access to food that may not meet a person’s nutritional needs, is paradoxically associated with higher BMI (kg/m2) and obesity.
Leonard H. Epstein, Ashfique Rizwan, Rocco A. Paluch, Jennifer L. Temple   +3 more
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