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Impact of public climate change adaptation policies on women's employment and poverty in Burkina Faso

open access: yesWorld Development Sustainability
Climate change is expected to bring hotter periods and reduced rainfall to Burkina Faso, decreasing water availability and soil moisture. This will negatively affect agriculture and food production.
Boureima Sawadogo
doaj   +1 more source

On Intra-Annual Poverty in the U.S.: Prevalence, Causes and Response to Food Stamp Program Use [PDF]

open access: yes
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.
core   +1 more source

Advancing Fruit Bioimpedance Monitoring With Sustainable, Soft, And Bio‐Based Electrodes Beyond ECG

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Electrical impedance spectroscopy enables non‐destructive fruit quality monitoring, but conventional ECG and needle electrodes compromise signal stability, fruit physiology, and sustainability. This perspective highlights the transition toward soft, biocompatible, and biodegradable electrode interfaces based on natural substrates, bio‐derived ...
Sundus Riaz   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Food Energy Consumption and Poverty Levels on the Prevalence of Food Inadequacy in Indonesia

open access: yesGlobal Economic, Social, and Development Review
Food security in Indonesia continues to face serious challenges despite the declining poverty rate, indicating that income growth alone does not necessarily translate into improved nutritional outcomes.
Nur Afini   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Public Distribution Systems of Foodgrains and Implications for Food Security: A Comparison of the Experiences of India and China [PDF]

open access: yes
public distribution system, food security, poverty, food subsidy, India ...
Zhou, Zhangyue, Wan, Guanghua
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Multilevel government, municipalities and food security [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
South Africa produces enough food yet has unacceptably high food insecurity levels. Food security is as much about access and quality as it is about production. South Africa’s food insecurity challenge is inextricably linked to the high levels of poverty
de Visser, Jaap
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Electrically Conductive and Topographically Engineered PLCL Nerve Guidance Conduits for Facial Nerve Regeneration

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
A bio‐integrated nerve guidance conduit is developed for facial nerve regeneration by combining electrospun aligned PLCL nanofibers with a conductive tannic acid/polypyrrole‐based hydrogel coating. This optimized scaffold provides synergistic topographical cues and supports electrical stimulation, promoting enhanced neuronal differentiation and ...
Su Jeong Park   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of Challenges Experienced by Women in Subsistence Crop Production

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues
Men and women are assigned roles and obligations that they must fulfill to sustain the welfare of their households. These are adhered to despite the challenges encountered by women, essential food producers within households, to guarantee sustainable ...
Sejabaledi Agnes Rankoana
doaj   +1 more source

Toward a typology of food security in developing countries: [PDF]

open access: yes
The recent global food and financial crises have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty. This paper conducts a factor and sequential typology analysis to identify groups of countries categorized according to five measures of ...
You, Liangzhi   +2 more
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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