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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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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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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 and Child Health [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2019 OBJECTIVES: Food insecurity is an important public health problem facing children in the United States. Although a number of previous studies suggest that food insecurity has negative impacts on health, these studies have not dealt thoroughly with issues of selection bias.
Margaret M C, Thomas +2 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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Food Insecurity is Associated with Food Consumption Patterns and Anthropometric Measures but not Serum Micronutrient Levels in Adults in Rural Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2010 The purpose of the present paper is to assess the relationship between food insecurity and food consumption patterns, anthropometric measures and serum micronutrient levels in rural Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
Leyna, Germana H +4 more
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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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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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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 +3 more
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