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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health outcomes in Undernutrition: the role of Nutrients, Gut dysfunction and the gut microbiome (HUNGer) [PDF]

, 2019
The HUNGer consortium is comprised of a multi-disciplinary, multi-national consortium of world leading researchers, with expertise in physiology and nutrition, through to clinical research, public health and agriculture in LMIC settings.
Holmes, Elaine, Drake, Lesley, Frost, Gary, Maitland, Kathryn, Consortium, HUNGer, thompson, Thompson, alex, Lett, Aaron, Marchesi, Julian, Walsh, Kevin, Swann, Jonathan   +10 more
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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma, Andres Cuadros‐Meñaca, Michael R. Thomsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Baby Friendly Spaces+: a process evaluation of an integrative health approach for lactating women and their babies in Nguenyyiel refugee camp, Gambella, Ethiopia

Global Health Action
Poor maternal mental health has been shown to impact child health and development. Yet, there is a gap in research on integrated maternal and child care models in humanitarian settings.
Molly E. Lasater, Getachew M. Woldeyes, Karine Le Roch, Ohemaa B. Poku, Xuan Phan, Anvita Bhardwaj, Geta Kassa, Andy Solomon-Osborne, Sarah M. Murray   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hidden Hunger in South Africa: The faces of hunger and malnutrition in a food-secure nation [PDF]

, 2014
South Africa is supposedly a food-secure nation, producing enough calories to feed every one of its 53 million citizens. But despite some progress, one in four people currently suffers hunger on a regular basis and more than half of the population live ...
Teka Tsegay, Yared, Rusare, Masiiwa, Mistry, Rashmi   +2 more
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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

The Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma: The Effects of Maternal PTSD in Mother-Infant Interactions

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
The objective of the study was to examine the process of mother to infant trauma transmission among traumatized mothers in humanitarian contexts. We investigated the impact of mothers' post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms on the quality of the dyadic ...
Elisabetta Dozio, Marion Feldman, Cécile Bizouerne, Elise Drain, Mathilde Laroche Joubert, Malika Mansouri, Marie Rose Moro, Lisa Ouss   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hunger Games

Acta Medica Philippina
Undernutrition among children has always been a major concern in the Philippines. According to the Philippine 2018- 2019 Expanded National Nutrition Survey (ENNS) reported in 2022, the prevalence of underweight among children less than five years old was 18.8% among males and 19.3% among females.
openaire   +2 more sources

A Robust Deep Temporal Causal Discovery Platform for Single‐Cell Gene Regulatory Network Reconstruction

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
scTIGER2.0 is a deep‐learning framework that infers gene regulatory networks from single‐cell RNA sequencing data. By integrating correlation, pseudotime ordering, deep learning and bootstrap‐based significance testing, it reduces false positives and reveals directional gene interactions.
Nishi Gupta, Madison Dautle, Shaoqiang Zhang, Yong Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source