Aim: To determine the association between food insecurity and Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) in high school girls. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 525 students aged 14-18 years in northern Iran. Dietary assessment was performed using a validated and reliable 147-food item...

Background: University students are often affected by food insecurity (FI) and this situation has been associated with low consumption of fruit/vegetables and high intake of added sugars and sweet drinks. However, there needs to be more evidence on the association between FI and dietary patterns...

The study analyzed the food security and dietary diversity of tea workers in Lakkatura Tea Garden and Ootterbhag Tea garden in greater Sylhet district of Bangladesh. A total of 200 respondents (100 from each tea estate) were interviewed to evaluate the food security and dietary diversity. The study ...

This paper chronicles the growth of tea sector in India, tracing value chain configurations over the years. Tea arrived in India in the early 19th century as fallout of the British Empire's pressing need for an alternative tea producer to China. For a significant part of the colonial era, tea...

Rather than improving crop-production yield, developing biorefinery technology for unused biomass from the agri-food supply chain may be the crucial factor to reach sustainable global food security. A successful example of food-driven biorefinery is the extraction of protein from green tea...

Agricultural production in the face of climate change requires a transformation and reorientation in agricultural systems and policy making. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is such a transformative approach that aims to sustainably increase food security, by improving adaptation to climate change...

Normal bureaucracy tends to centralise, standardise and simplify, and to serve better those people and places that are less poor and more accessible. Field bureaucracies have done well (a) where simple standardised programmes have found uniform conditions - like irrigated plains with green...

Secang kombucha drink is a fermented drink by Acetobacter xylinum and Sacharomyces cerevisiae using secang wood. Secang wood contains several nutritional contents that can be used in food diversification and sustainability of food for supporting food security. The use of secang wood is as a...

Agricultural production in the face of climate change requires a climate-smart transformation and reorientation at multiple scales. Vietnam is one of the developing countries that is agriculture-based and severely affected by climate change; therefore it is crucial that the agricultural system...

Concerns about rising food insecurity in developing countries have prompted a lot of research. This paper deals with household survey of cash crop smallholders in Murang'a District, Kenya. The paper focuses on how factors related to cash crops production affect food security. Principal component...