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Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Food Policies: Governance Processes and Policy Designs From Three Spanish Cities

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the integration of gender mainstreaming in urban food policies (UFPs) through three Spanish case studies: Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza. While UFPs are pivotal for addressing sustainability in urban food systems, attention to gender disparities within them remains insufficient.
Chiara Bergonzini, Francesca Donati
wiley   +1 more source

A randomised controlled trial of a program based on the theory of planned behavior to promote fruit and vegetable intake among schoolchildren: PROFRUVE study protocol

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background The PROFRUVE study is a controlled intervention based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), which follows those behavioral theories that have proved to be the most effective at changing infant fruit and vegetable (FV) intake pattern.
M. Arrizabalaga-López, D. Rada-Fernández de Jáuregui, M. P. Portillo, O. Martínez, I. Etaio, J. R. Mauleón, E. Echevarría, F. Gómez, V. M. Rodríguez   +8 more
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Key soil health indicators under humid grazing lands

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Soil health can be described using a few key soil health indicators that target a diversity of soil functions. This perspective article highlights how forage management affects these soil health indicators in humid‐zone grazing lands. Abstract Background Soil health describes critical soil functions influenced by land management. Although some key soil
Alan J. Franzluebbers
wiley   +1 more source

Growers’ perspectives on cultivating Coffea arabica in southern Ethiopia: can the road to success still be paved in coffee (buna)?

Agriculture & Food Security
Focus group discussions (n = 5) were convened to allow southern Ethiopian farmers the opportunity to elucidate their experiences cultivating Coffea arabica, a plant species indigenous to a world region that has become a ‘food insecure hotspot ...
Alazar Kirubel Kora, Jacob A. Rosecrans, Aemiro Tadesse Zula, Fikadu Reta Alemayehu, Curtis L. Weller, Mary S. Willis   +5 more
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The association of the quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in Afghanistan: a comparative analysis

BMC Public Health, 2023
The overreaching objective of the current study is to investigate the association of quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity. The data was collected immediately after the Taliban took control of a large part of Afghanistan.
Jumakhan Saif-Nijat, Mohammad Reza Pakravan-Charvadeh, Saeed Gholamrezai, Mehdi Rahimian, Ginny Lane, Daniel Béland, Mustafa Koc, Nancy Clark, Nasrin Omidvar, Rasoul Sadeghi, Hassan Vatanparast   +10 more
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Mapping food insecurity and food sources in New Hampshire cities and towns [PDF]

, 2012
Using a series of detailed New Hampshire maps, this brief presents a geographic picture of the towns and cities at risk for food insecurity as well as the food resources available across the state.
Ward, Sally, Wauchope, Barbara
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Pubertal timing and incident uterine cancer in the Sister Study cohort

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
What's New? Younger age at menarche is an established risk factor for uterine cancer. Age at onset of breast development (thelarche), the earliest marker of pubertal estrogen exposure unopposed by progesterone, may also be relevant to uterine cancer risk, but this association has not been explored. Using data from the US prospective Sister Study cohort,
Ariayana N. Harrell, Katie M. O'Brien, Natalie D. Shaw, Dale P. Sandler, Mandy Goldberg   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Obesity and Nutritional Sociology: A Model for Coping with the Stigma of Obesity [PDF]

, 1991
Nutritional sociology uses sociological theories and methods to study and influence food patterns, eating habits, and nutrition. Obesity and weight loss are important topics in nutritional sociology, and stigmatization of the obese is a long-standing ...
Sobal, Jeffery
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Transforming Agricultural Water Management Through the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Trends, Opportunities, Barriers and Solutions

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural water management (AWM) is increasingly transitioning towards transformative thinking, where interconnected sectors, including water, energy and food, are managed holistically. Trends point towards cross‐sectoral and harmonised strategies to optimise water use efficiency and productivity, integrate renewable energy, promote ...
Luxon Nhamo, Cuthbert Taguta, Sylvester Mpandeli, Tinashe Dirwai, Stanley Liphadzi, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change, Millet and Ritual Relationship with the Magars of Argal, Baglung, Nepal

Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2013
This paper focuses on cultural analysis and how people are coping with new situation created by climate change in production of millet. Changes relating to climate change are observed; perceived and understood on a local level.
Man Bahadur Khattri
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