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Exploring the impact of a maternal support grant to improve mental health and food security amongst pregnant women in South Africa during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Poverty &Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, Page 232-252, September 2024.
Abstract Social protection during pregnancy may support pregnant women struggling to meet basic needs to ensure a healthy pregnancy and buffer negative impacts of multiple adversities. We assessed the effect of a bimonthly digital food voucher, delivered to pregnant women during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the Cape Town area, on their mental health ...
Christina A. Laurenzi, Masedi Menyatsoe, Mustafa Shuaib, Amanda Edwards, Kelly Gemmell, Hayli Geffen, Mark Tomlinson, Anna‐Marie Müller, Samuel Manda, Kopano M. Mabaso   +9 more
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La seguridad alimentaria en la encrucijada de las desigualdades regionales de México

Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2022
El propósito del presente trabajo es analizar las dimensiones regionales de la seguridad alimentaria, vista como problema estructural del desarrollo en México durante el periodo 2000-2020.
Felipe Torres Torres, Agustín Rojas Martínez   +1 more
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Food security in slow‐onset disasters: A policy review in Southeast Asian regions

World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, Page 353-375, September 2024.
Abstract Slow‐onset disasters, a neglected climatic event, affect the agricultural sector in Southeast Asia and threaten regional food security. Improving food security in slow‐onset disasters requires policy development by both regional and national governments.
Hiep N. Le, Ernesta Sofija, Neil Harris, Thu Nguyen, Hai Phung   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efectos del Aislamiento Social Preventivo y Obligatorio por COVID-19 en la seguridad alimentaria de las infancias

Revista de Salud Pública, 2021
En Argentina, la situación socioeconómica de los hogares y el precio de los alimentos lleva a una vulnerabilidad alimentaria cada vez más grave, agudizada aún más por la pandemia del COVID-19.
Ianina Tuñon
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Inseguridad alimentaria en México: análisis de dos escalas en 2020

Estudios Sociales. Revista de Alimentación Contemporánea y Desarrollo Regional, 2023
Objetivo: comparar los efectos de diversas variables de la jefatura y del contexto socioeconómico del hogar en la seguridad alimentaria, según las estimaciones de dos escalas de experiencia en los hogares en México en el 2020. Metodología: estudio transversal basado en datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición 2020 sobre Covid-19, así como de ...
Eréndira Fierro-Moreno, Daniel Lozano-Keymolen, Sergio Cuauhtémoc Gaxiola-Robles Linares   +2 more
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Waterscapes meet socio‐ecological models: A relational framework to examine water insecurity and human health and well‐being

People and Nature, Volume 6, Issue 3, Page 1036-1047, June 2024.
Abstract Water insecurity, the inability to benefit from affordable, adequate, reliable and safe water, is one of the greatest contemporary threats facing humans. While ‘water insecurity’, as a concept, is globally recognized and serves an essential function in policymaking, it does not capture the multiple, relational connections between Indigenous ...
Paula Skye Tallman, Natalia C. Piland, Melanie Villarmarzo, Lulu Victoria‐Lacy, Armando Valdés‐Velásquez   +4 more
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Credit, gender, and food security: Empirical evidence of determinants to access, affordability, and consumption in Cameroon

World Food Policy, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 48-85, May 2024.
Abstract Despite receiving considerable attention, food insecurity remains a salient issue, especially in sub‐Saharan Africa. Among other factors, limited access to credit is one of the direct drivers of food insecurity. Hence, interventions such as credit, which improve household income, may be important in improving food security.
Emmanuel Kyeremateng, Ernest L. Molua, Stephanie M. E. Mvodo, Francis E. Ndip   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food insecurity and dietary diversity among food aid recipients in urban and rural areas at the covid‐19 outbreak: An exploratory study

World Food Policy, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 33-47, May 2024.
Abstract The covid‐19 pandemic has affected food aid. This paper reports an exploratory study to estimate the prevalence and degree of food insecurity, household dietary diversity score (HDDS), and the association with demographic, social, and economic characteristics of health status in a sample of food aid recipients in urban and rural areas of ...
Elena Carrillo‐Álvarez, Lluís Costa‐Tutusaus, Raimon Milà‐Villaroel, Nithya Shankar Krishnan, Blanca Salinas‐Roca   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seguridad alimentaria en alumnos de la Secundaria del sureste mexicano

Horizonte Sanitario, 2019
  Objetivo: Evaluar la seguridad alimentaria de los alumnos de la Secundaria Técnica 26, Chiltepec, Paraíso, Tabasco. Materiales y Métodos: Estudio descriptivo, transversal; en el cual participaron 250 padres y/o tutores de los alumnos de Escuela ...
Sonia Nohemí Guzmán Pérez, Ligia Araceli Barragán Lizama, Rossana Patricia Gallegos Gallegos   +2 more
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Inseguridad alimentaria de los hogares colombianos según localización geográfica y algunas condiciones sociodemográficas

Perspectivas en Nutrición Humana, 2008
Introducción: la seguridad alimentaria en los hogares de un país es un indicador de calidad de vida y de pobreza. Su caracterización es útil para la focalización de las políticas sociales.
Martha Cecilia Álvarez Uribe, Alejandro Estrada Restrepo   +1 more
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