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THE CHALLENGES OF POVERTY REDUCTION WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO RURAL POVERTY AND AGRICULTURE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA [PDF]

Food Security and Poverty,
Tollens, Eric
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Does Participating in Agricultural Global Value Chains Promote Agricultural Growth?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between GVC participation and agricultural value‐added growth in 43 countries over the period 1995–2022. In contrast to prior literature, we disaggregate the agricultural sector into four sub‐sectors namely crop cultivation, animal production, forestry and fishing.
Taner Turan, Halit Yanıkkaya, Hüseyin Alperen Özer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Household Food Security in the United States, 2004 [PDF]

Eighty-eight percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2004, meaning that they had access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households were food insecure
Andrews, Margaret S., Nord, Mark
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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Doria A. Medondjeu, Dorothy E. Fon, Stefan Sieber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Boosting smallholder production for food security: some approaches and evidence from studies in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

This paper uses the sustainable livelihoods framework to explore the contribution of smallholder production to food security in some sub-Saharan African countries and relates it to the South African case.
Matshe, Innocent
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When Biology Meets Medicine: A Perspective on Foundation Models

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Artificial intelligence, and foundation models in particular, are transforming life sciences and medicine. This perspective reviews biological and medical foundation models across scales, highlighting key challenges in data availability, model evaluation, and architectural design.
Kunying Niu, Yuxing Wang, Limin Zou, Jing Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association of food insecurity with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease by sex and race/ethnicity. [PDF]

Eur J Nutr
Tao MH, Lin CH, Liu J, Chai W, Trudeau S, Gonzalez HC, Lu M, Gordon SC.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does the Food Stamp Program Affect Food Security Status and the Composition of Food Expenditures? [PDF]

This article considers interaction among participation in the Food Stamp Program (FSP), food security status, and the composition of food expenditures. A quadratic almost ideal demand system with a bootstrapping two-step method of estimation is applied ...
Pan, Suwen, Jensen, Helen H.
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A Steerable and Expandable Magnetic Aspiration Catheter for Enhanced Aspiration Thrombectomy

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This article presents a novel magnetic aspiration catheter (MAC) that can be both actively steered and undergo distal‐end expansion via externally applied magnetic fields. The MAC facilitates precise branch selection and enhances clot engagement by improving endovascular navigation and aspiration efficiency. Phantom experiments validate its feasibility
Hakjoon Lee, Xiao Dong, Dong‐in Kim, A. M. Masum Bulbul Chowdhury, Nader Latifi Gharamaleki, Jin‐young Kim, Sung Won Youn, Hongsoo Choi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Household Food Security Among Foreign-Born Residents of New York City Through Grocery Store Vouchers: A Pilot Program. [PDF]

J Public Health Manag Pract
Nieves CI, Nieves CI, Wohlman A, Arbelaez SA, Zamula A, Bonah N, Padilla CM, Narvaez L, Cuevas A, John P.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source