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Determinants of the food insecurity at household level in Pakistan: A multilevel model approach.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Food insecurity is a major concern for the developing world and around 37% of the population of Pakistan is food insecure. This paper utilizes the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) to assess the population prevalence of food insecurity and to ...
Tahir Mahmood +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundFew studies have examined how food insecurity changes over time when living with severe mental disorders or substance use disorders. This study identifies food insecurity trajectories of homeless adults participating in a trial of a housing ...
James Lachaud +7 more
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Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2020 Background: Malnutrition is a consequence of food insecurity. Food insecurity in India became a public health problem due to explosive population growth and widening gap between rich and poor. It also has a detrimental effect on factors related to health
Bharathnag Nagappa +5 more
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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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Africa Research Bulletin: Economic, Financial and Technical Series, 2020 La inseguridad alimentaria es un problema global y tiene diferentes causas y efectos. Usualmente se piensa que se relaciona exclusivamente con la pobreza como causa principal pero también se reportan en la literatura otros aspectos como la violencia contra la mujer; asimismo, la inseguridad alimentaria impacta directamente en el agravamiento de ...
Vara Horna, Arístides +1 more
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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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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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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 +2 more
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Foods, 2021 Background: Food waste and food insecurity may co-exist in various balances in developing and developed countries. This study aimed to explore the levels of food waste and food insecurity, the factors associated with them, and their relationships at the ...
Nora A. Althumiri +5 more
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Food insecurity, food based coping strategies and suboptimal dietary practices of adolescents in Jimma Zone Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2013 Despite the high prevalence of adolescent food insecurity in Ethiopia, there is no study which documented its association with suboptimal dietary practices.
Gebremariam, Abebe +6 more
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