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Conceptualizing food justice in the food charity system in Prince George’s County, Maryland, USA
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community DevelopmentThe well-documented flaws of the American food charity system include accessibility challenges, lack of food choice, and a dearth of nutritious food options.
Caroline Boules +3 more
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, 2021 Despite a constitutional right to food, a comprehensive social security structure, being a net exporter of agricultural products and maintaining a rising GDP, freedom from hunger remains a pipedream for millions of South Africans. With a constant surge in food prices, the availability of sustenance is often seriously threatened for all of South Africa ...
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.14‐day casting‐induced immobilization reduced gastrocnemius muscle mass and increased non‐heme iron and ferritin heavy chain levels. Despite iron accumulation, transferrin receptor 1 and iron regulatory protein 2 were paradoxically upregulated. Lipid peroxidation was elevated without compensatory antioxidant responses.
Haruka Yokogawa +2 more
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Food Security. The Challenge of Nutrition in the New Century
Relations, 2017 The exponential growth of the world population (according to the FAO projections, it is expected to reach 9 billion people in 2050) and the urbanization (which will bring more than 60% of the population to live in the cities at the same date), combined ...
Nicholas Chiari
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COVID- 19 and human right to food: lived experiences of the urban poor in Kenya with the impacts of government's response measures, a participatory qualitative study. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Kimani-Murage EW +5 more
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Food Sovereignty – An Appropriate Approach to Ensure the Right to Food? [PDF]
Nordic Journal of International Law, 2009 AbstractThe article reviews the food sovereignty concept, comparing it with the legally recognised human right to food. It is found that there are certain elements of Article 11(2) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which have not been properly emphasised in the context of food trade and new technologies in food ...
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Average Food Prices: A Snapshot of How Much Has Changed Over a Century [PDF]
, 2013 In January 1913, when the U.S. Department of Labor was formed, the buffalo nickel would soon replace the Liberty Head nickel, women were protesting for the right to vote, and a family could buy a pound of potatoes for less than two cents.
Church, Jonathan, Stewart, Kenneth
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Evolutionarily divergent DUF4465 domains have a common vitamin B12‐binding function
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.We show that DUF4465 family proteins, widespread across bacteria from gut microbiomes, hydrothermal vents, and soil, share a common vitamin B12‐binding function. These augmented β‐jellyroll proteins bind vitamin B12 via extended loops. Our findings establish sequence‐diverse DUF4465 proteins as a widespread class of B12‐binding proteins, highlighting ...
Charlea Clarke +4 more
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The Right to Food, Land and Democracy
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2002 This paper shows how changes in the policy environment associated with economic reforms have undermined rural food security and increased poverty among the grassroots poor in three research districts in Tanzania.
C. G. Mung'ong'o
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Organic hospital food is desired by patients and engages the kitchen [PDF]
, 2007 In December 2005 a questionnaire survey was conducted at the University Hospital in Trondheim, Norway. Patients and personnel expressed that food is important for their health and well-being.
Behrens, Gesine +2 more
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