This annual report describes the World Food Programme's (WFP's) humanitarian response of providing food to areas greatly affected by natural disasters in 2007, such as Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, hurricanes and floods in Latin America and the Caribbean, Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua, tropical storm...
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World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
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Annual Report - World Food Programme, 2007: be part of the solution, 2007, pp 48 pp.
Background: As part of a global policy response for addressing malnutrition, food system actions have been proposed. Within food system interventions, policies directed to supply chains have the potential to increase the availability and affordability of a healthy diet. This qualitative study aimed ...
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Cervantes, G.; Thow, A. M.; Gómez-Oliver, L.; Durán Arenas, L.; Pérez-Ferrer, C.
Publisher
Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Citation
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022, 11, 11, pp 2451-2463
The aim of this study was to analyze the causes of poverty and food insecurity in rural Mexico under the framework of public policy, in order to contribute to the conceptual understanding of this issue through a review of documents with a historical perspective. It addresses the conceptual...
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Figueroa, M. L.; Moral, J. B. del; Reyes, V. C.
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Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Chapingo, Mexico
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Textual Análisis del Medio Rural Latinoamericano, 2018, No.71, pp 71-105
The COVID-19 pandemic showed an impact mainly on the health of people and the economy of households. The levels of food security in the world's households, especially in Mexico, have decreased. When people do not have food security, their health is compromised and they have financial problems; on...
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Monroy-Torres, R.; Castillo-Chávez, Á.; Carcaño-Valencia, E.; Hernández-Luna, M.; Caldera-Ortega, A.; Serafín-Muñoz, A.; Linares-Segovia, B.; Medina-Jiménez, K.; Jiménez-Garza, O.; Méndez-Pérez, M.; López-Briones, S.
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MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
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Sustainability, 2021, 13, 13,
The objective of this cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between food insecurity and depression in the Mexican population. We used data from the 2012 health and nutrition survey (ENSANUT), which is representative of the Mexican population. Food insecurity was determined by the...
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Kolovos, S.; Zavala, G. A.; Leijen, A. S.; Melgar-Quiñonez, H.; Tulder, M. van
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Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Food Security, 2020, 12, 2, pp 407-416
Background: Disruptions from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic potentially exacerbated food insecurity among adults and youth. Objectives: The objective was to examine changes in the prevalence and severity of food insecurity among adults and youth from before (2019) to during (2020) ...
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Pepetone, A.; Frongillo, E. A.; Dodd, K. W.; Wallace, M. P.; Hammond, D.; Kirkpatrick, S. I.
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Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
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Journal of Nutrition, 2023, 153, 4, pp 1231-1243
The objective of this essay was to identify food vulnerability starting from the origin of the concept of 'food security' and at the same time to describe Mexican food policy. The question that guided this work was: the situation of vulnerability to food that is lived in rural Mexican households is ...
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Romero, N. M.; Sangerman-Jarquín, D. M.; Hernández Juárez, M.; Merino, A. L.; Escalona Maurice, M. J.
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Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Mexico City, Mexico
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Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas, 2019, 10, 4, pp 935-945
Understanding food insecurity among older adults (OAs) is a relevant issue. Objectives: Perform a systematic literature review identifying how food insecurity has been measured and how it affects policies, and assess through a psychometric analysis, if experience-based food security scales (EBFSS), ...
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Vilar-Compte, M.; Gaitán-Rossi, P.; Pérez-Escamilla, R.
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Elsevier B. V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Global Food Security, 2017, 14, pp 87-95
Tackling the environmental impacts of food systems can play a crucial role in achieving urban sustainability. Robust accounts of urban food supply must inform policymaking. Current research on urban food supply often relies on extrapolating national data sets to the urban scale, obscuring the...
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Guibrunet, L.; Arnés, E.
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Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, USA
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Papers in Applied Geography, 2022, 8, 3, pp 282-296
Objective: To assess, from a systems perspective, how climate vulnerability and socio-economic and political differences at the municipal and state levels explain food insecurity in Mexico. Design: Using a cross-sectional design with official secondary data, we estimated three-level multinomial...
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Vilar-Compte, M.; Gaitán-Rossi, P.; Flores, D.; Pérez-Cirera, V.; Teruel, G.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Citation
Public Health Nutrition, 2020, 23, 13, pp 2445-2452