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An investigation of genetic diversity in three Dezhou donkey original breeding farms

Scientific Reports, 2023
Dezhou donkey is one of the excellent large donkey breeds in China. In our study, eight microsatellite markers were used to genotype from each of three populations of Chinese Dezhou donkeys: 67 individuals in Liaocheng (pop1), 103 individuals in Binzhou ...
Tianqi Wang, Ziwen Liu, Xiaoyuan Shi, Zhenwei Zhang, Yuhua Li, Bingjian Huang, Wei Ren, Xinrui Wang, Changfa Wang, Wenqiong Chai   +9 more
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Unhealthy food consumption among Ecuadorian children: A cross-sectional study in the context of the school food regulation

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición, 2023
Introduction. The intake of energy-dense unhealthy food at school could influence the overall energy intake of children. Objective: To characterize the patterns of buying a snack at school and to analyze the association of these patterns with the source ...
Juan Jácome, Samuel Escandón, Alejandro Rodríguez, Carl Lachat, Roberto Aguirre, Wilma Freire, René-Vinicio Sánchez, Silvana Donoso, Susana Andrade, Angélica Ochoa-Avilés   +9 more
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Of Powdered Milk and Empowered Memories: Relief Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Northern Greece, 1946-1951

Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, 2022
Christina Dokou provided the eloquent testimony of her mother, who as a young girl growing up in a small village in northern Greece, benefited from the postwar food distributions made by American relief missions.
Gonda Van Steen
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School Meal Programs in Africa: Regional Results From the 2019 Global Survey of School Meal Programs

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
IntroductionSchool meal programs operate throughout Africa, serving as a social safety net and aiming to improve children's nutrition, influence their dietary choices, and strengthen the agrifood economy through local procurement.
Ayala Wineman, Ayala Wineman, Moses C. Ekwueme, Moses C. Ekwueme, Liliane Bigayimpunzi, Alice Martin-Daihirou, Eth Ludmilla de Gois V. N. Rodrigues, Eth Ludmilla de Gois V. N. Rodrigues, Priscilia Etuge, Priscilia Etuge, Yale Warner, Heidi Kessler, Arlene Mitchell   +12 more
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How Are School Menus Evaluated in Different Countries? A Systematic Review

Foods, 2021
School meals should focus on quality of life issues, particularly on reducing food shortages, overweight, obesity and its consequences. As an essential tool for quality assurance, creating the menu is an activity of great complexity and requires ...
Alessandra Fabrino Cupertino, Dayanne da Costa Maynard, Fabiana Lopes Nalon de Queiroz, Renata Puppin Zandonadi, Verônica Cortez Ginani, António Raposo, Ariana Saraiva, Raquel Braz Assunção Botelho   +7 more
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Establishing Global School Feeding Program Targets: How Many Poor Children Globally Should Be Prioritized, and What Would Be the Cost of Implementation?

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
The creation of Human Capital is dependent upon good health and education throughout the first 8,000 days of life, but there is currently under-investment in health and nutrition after the first 1,000 days.
Lesley J. Drake, Nail Lazrak, Meena Fernandes, Kim Chu, Samrat Singh, David Ryckembusch, Sara Nourozi, Donald A. P. Bundy, Carmen Burbano   +8 more
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Challenges to balance food demand and supply: analysis of PNAE execution in one semiarid region of Brazil

Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2020
This study intended to address the challenges faced by the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) to implement public purchases from family farming, as they understand their role in the transformation of local food systems.
Viviany Moura Chaves, Liana Galvão Bacurau Pinheiro, Renata Alexandra Moreira das Neves, Maria Arlete Duarte de Araújo, Joana Barbosa da Silva, Paulo Eneas Rolim Bezerra, Michelle Cristine Medeiros Jacob   +6 more
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Public School Food Supply Chain during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of the City of Vitória (Brazil)

Logistics, 2022
Background: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazilian public schools closed in 2020. This lockdown stopped the provision of school meals to public school students, most of whom belonged to low-income families facing food insecurity.
Taniellen Miranda Coelho, Julianna Zambon Moscon, Irineu de Brito Junior, Angélica Alebrant Mendes, Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki   +4 more
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Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE) e sustentabilidade: o caso do município de Marechal Cândido Rondon

Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2016
This study contextualizes the Brazilian National School Feeding Program (PNAE) among other Brazilian public policies of family farming based on a sustainable development perspective. The case study is made up of two parts.
Hadrien François Pierre-henri Constanty, Wilson João Zonin   +1 more
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Food Safety and Hygiene: Knowledge, Attitude and Practices among Food Handlers [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2021
The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) aims at supplying nutritious supplementary meals to schoolchildren in order to improve education outcome by elevating learning ability, school attendance, and punctuality.
Thandeka Nyawo, Hema Kesa, Eridiong Onyenweaku   +2 more
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