Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate if religious food laws can provide answers to current issues with the food systems. Design/methodology/approach - This paper provides a discussion of the dietary and food system principles from a Judaism, Christianity and Islamic perspective for ...
Author(s)
Tieman, M.; Faridah Hj Hassan
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, Bradford, UK
Citation
British Food Journal, 2015, 117, 9, pp 2313-2327
Despite varying farm animal welfare laws being enacted and considered, it is unclear and unknown whether they generate sufficient benefits to justify their costs. This study asks how sow gestation crate laws that dictate minimum crate size, a particular farm animal welfare law, impact meat...
Author(s)
Blemings, B.; Zhang PeiLu; Neill, C. L.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2023, 117,
Food policies are focused on ensuring the consumption needs of the existing population in a given territory. In general, food policies are built on food continuity and production based on a pool of natural resources available at a given time. Critical food security incidents, particularly the...
Author(s)
Antohi, V. M.; Zlati, M. L.; Sârbu, R.; Stanciu, S.; Virlănuță, F. O.; Anagnoste, S.
Publisher
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Citation
Amfiteatru Economic, 2019, No.51, pp 329-346 (En), 269-285 (Ro)
Food supply has been a constant source of concern for mankind. In the present context, with food security a priority of European and national policies, an analysis of pig farming in a representative NUTS2 administrative level of Romania that emphasizes the proportion of households raising at least...
Author(s)
Teodorescu, C.; Burcea, M.; Lequeux-Dinča, A. I.; Merciu, F. C.; Jipa, A. N.; Szemkovics, L. Ş.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Agriculture, 2023, 13, 3,
This paper examines how organic pork (OP) production, marketing and consumption in Thailand contributes to global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that affect food agri-food system sustainability. The paper discusses technical debates and academic literature sources about OP, socioeconomic and...
Author(s)
Visetnoi, S.; Nelles, W.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Agriculture, 2023, 13, 9,
China is the world's largest consumer of pork and grains. However, African swine fever (ASF) and the COVID-19 outbreak have greatly impacted the pork supply and food security in China. How can food security and the pork supply be ensured under the dual impacts of COVID-19 and ASF? This is a major...
Author(s)
Yao HuiZong; Zang ChuanFu; Zuo XiaoXing; Xian YuYang; Lu YongQuan; Huang YuTong; Li XianBing
Publisher
Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Geography and Sustainability, 2022, 3, 1, pp 32-43
Backyards are family settings adjacent to the house, characterized mainly by being small-scale and diversified productive spaces. The research typologically characterized the backyards and their contribution to family food security in La Concordia municipality, Chiapas, Mexico. The research was...
Author(s)
Guevara-Hernández, F.; O-Arias, M. A. la; Aguilar-Vázquez, E. H.; Ruiz-Sánchez, E.; Martínez-Aguilar, F.; Aguilar-Jiménez, C. E.
Publisher
Centro de Ciências Rurais, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
Citation
Ciência Rural, 2023, 53, 8,
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 ...
ISBN
2018 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786392459)
The Spanish flu, Asian flu, Hong Kong flu, HIV/AIDS, SARS, Ebola, and Swine flu, among others, have had a significant impact on agriculture, education, the economy, and human activities, including leisureliness, shipping, healthiness, fisheries, mining, industry, and trade. Currently, manhood is...
Author(s)
Mehvish Mumtaz; Nazim Hussain; Zulqarnain Baqar; Saima Anwar; Muhammad Bilal
Publisher
Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany
Citation
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021, 28, 36, pp 49410-49424
Food security of Russia is related to food self sufficiency, i.e correlation between production and consumption volumes. Negative effects of intensive urbanization, decline of agriculture resulting from collapse of the former forms of land ownership and economies, and decrease in state support to...
Publisher
Izdatel'stvo Kolos, Moscow, Russia
Citation
Mezhdunarodnyĭ Sel'skokhozyaĭstvennyĭ Zhurnal, 2016, No.3, pp 49-51