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Nutrition and Food Sciences

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The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of outgrowers' programs on the food security of smallholder poultry farming households in Osun State. Using multi-stage sampling technique, a structured questionnaire was designed to collect information from beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries...

Author(s)
Omodara, O. D.; Oyebanji, A. T.; Oluwasola, O.
Publisher
Public Library of Sciences (PLoS), San Francisco, USA
Citation
PLoS ONE, 2023, 18, 9,
Abstract

Background: The present study aimed to reveal outputs of research works on village chicken production as a tool to combat food insecurity, taking into account the recurring challenge posed by food shortage and high rise in hunger among vulnerable people of several countries. Results: On aggregate,...

Author(s)
Idamokoro, E. M.; Hosu, Y. S.
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
Agriculture and Food Security, 2022, 11, 40, pp (02 August 2022)
Abstract

This study aims to analyse the role and contribution of small farms and small food businesses on the food system and food security. Drawing on a conceptual framework, methodology, and data from the EU H2020 'SALSA-Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food and nutrition security'...

Author(s)
Rodrigues Fortes, A.; Ferreira, V.; Simões, E. B.; Baptista, I.; Grando, S.; Sequeira, E.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Agriculture, 2020, 10, 6,
Abstract

Objective: To determine if constraints on agricultural production were a novel construct in the Panama Food Security Questionnaire (FSQ) and to characterize agricultural and economic determinants of food insecurity during the planting, growing and harvesting time periods in subsistence farming...

Author(s)
Krause, R. J.; Scott, M. E.; Sinisterra, O.; Koski, K. G.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Citation
Public Health Nutrition, 2019, 22, 13, pp 2398-2407
Abstract

Background: Urbanization is occurring rapidly in many low- and middle-income countries, which may affect households' livelihoods, diet, and food security and nutritional outcomes. Objective: The main objective of our study was to explore whether agricultural activity among a peri-urban population...

Author(s)
Moucheraud, C.; Chandyo, R. K.; Henjum, S.; Strand, T. A.; Ulak, M.; Fawzi, W. W.; Locks, L. M.; Webb, P.; Thorne-Lyman, A. L.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
Citation
Current Developments in Nutrition, 2019, 3, 1, pp nzy078
Abstract

It is often taken for granted that food loss and waste (FLW) reduction leads to better food security on the local, national and global levels. However, in reality, relations between food security and FLW are not direct, and reduction of food losses and even the increase of food availability do not...

Author(s)
Galaktionova, E. A.; Karlova, N. A.
Publisher
Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria
Citation
Russian Journal of Economics, 2022, 8, 4, pp 391-401
AbstractFull Text

Backyard poultry farming is a traditional productive practice of family farming that contributes to family nutrition, female empowerment and cohesion in the territories. The objectives of this study were to characterize and classify the backyard poultry farming systems (BPS) in the peri-urban area...

Author(s)
Hortúa-López, L.; Cerón-Muñoz, M.; Zaragoza-Martínez, M.; Angulo-Arizala, J.
Publisher
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
Citation
Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Perú (RIVEP), 2022, 33, 6,
Abstract

Global broiler production and consumption levels continue to rise. South Africa's broiler system is dominated by commercial production and formal retail trade, with competition from cheap imports. Local broiler policies have narrow, production-driven, short-term aims for industry growth and...

Author(s)
Queenan, K.; Cuevas, S.; Mabhaudhi, T.; Chimonyo, M.; Shankar, B.; Slotow, R.; Häsler, B.
Publisher
Public Library of Sciences (PLoS), San Francisco, USA
Citation
PLoS ONE, 2022, 17, 6,
Abstract

Current legal and social developments in Europe are leading to an uncertain future for the provision of kosher meat for Austrian Jews. We analyse parliamentary resolutions and aspirations and decisions of the European Court of Justice to provide the background to current legal events in the...

Author(s)
Rahlves, T.; Hofmeister, S.
Publisher
Österreichische Gesellschaft der Tierärztinnen und Tierärzte (ÖGT), Vienna, Austria
Citation
Wiener Tierärztliche Monatsschrift, 2022, 109, Artikel 5,
CABI Book Chapter Info
Cover for Animal welfare protection in the face of shrinking public resource.

This chapter considers how animals can (and historically have been) protected with limited or even no public resource, and indeed with limited or no animal protection laws. Given emphasis are cruelty (a positive act to deliberately cause unnecessary suffering of an animal) and negligence (an action ...

Author(s)
Hepple, S.
ISBN
2018 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786392459)
Type
Book chapter

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