The urbanization process and implementation of various ecological restoration projects have altered the urban-rural landscape patterns and ecosystem services (ESs). Do carbon sequestration and food security, which can be found differences in patterns in both urban and rural landscapes, reflect...

Food pantries serve populations with high rates of chronic disease and thus may be ideal settings for community-based health promotion programs. This study aimed to describe the readiness of food pantry organizations (n=69) and their personnel (n=129) to engage in nutrition-focused food pantry...

This study evaluates the impact of adopting improved sesame varieties on farm household food security using the data collected in 2018 from potential sesame-growing districts in northwestern Ethiopia. Selectivity and endogeneity problems were addressed by endogenous switching regression and the...

Household food insecurity in the United States has reached its highest levels to date. As public and private initiatives have emerged to help improve diets by fostering access to food, the availability of more food stores may result in lower levels of food insecurity. In this article, we assess the ...

Food hubs are of interest in regional and local food system development because they potentially enhance the sustainability of food supply chains. Expanding on earlier literature, this study introduces economies of scale into an aggregation hub location model and disaggregates production into four...

Objective: Food insecurity, or self-reports of inadequate food access due to limited financial resources, remains prevalent among people living with HIV (PLHIV). We examined the impact of food insecurity on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) adherence within an integrated care programme that ...

Agro-food supply chain integration (ASCI) plays a growingly important role in the stable and sustainable development of agriculture. However, it is challenging for core firms to integrate the small-scale and scatted farmers due to complex transaction processes and volatile relationships in China....

Famine exposure in early life was associated with cardiovascular diseases in later life. Whether biochemical surrogates of cardiovascular diseases, such as homocysteine and uric acid, are also associated with famine exposure is unknown so far. Data were derived from a population-based...

This paper analyzed the change law of grain production and put forward the development trend. Since the founding of new China from 1949, the grain production has increased in fluctuations and the yield per unit played an important role in it. The variety structure has been continuously optimized...

The characterization of agronomically important genes has great potential for the improvement of wheat. However, progress in wheat genetics and functional genomics has been impeded by the high complexity and enormous size of the wheat genome. Recent advances in genome sequencing and sequence...