Native Americans make up less than 2% of the population of the USA, but suffer from some of the highest rates of food insecurity, poverty, diet-related diseases, and other socioeconomic challenges. This study examined unique attributes of food security in Native American communities in the Klamath...
Author(s)
Sowerwine, J.; Mucioki, M.; Sarna-Wojcicki, D.; Hillman, L.
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Food Security, 2019, 11, 3, pp 579-607
Articles published in Food Security in 2021 are reviewed, showing a wide range of topics covered. Many articles are directly linked with "food" and associated terms such as "nutritive", "nutrition", "dietary", and "health". Another important group is linked with (food) "production" and a range of...
Author(s)
Savary, S.; Waddington, S.; Akter, S.; Almekinders, C. J. M.; Harris, J.; Korsten, L.; Rötter, R. P.; Broeck, G. van den
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Food Security, 2022, 14, 1, pp 1-7
Research on food insecurity in Australia has typically relied on a single-item measure and finds that approximately 5% of the population experiences food insecurity. This research also finds that demographic characteristics such as household composition and marital status affect levels of food...
Author(s)
Seivwrigh, A. N.; Callis, Z.; Flatau, P.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020, 17, 2,
Water-related indicators have predominantly focused on water availability and water infrastructure; experiences with water access and use have received far less attention. However, the assessment of water security using disaggregated indicators that are more proximal to the human experience, i.e.,...
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2021, 104,
Objective: The objective of the current work was to determine the association between food insecurity and frailty in older adults, within the context of a country with accelerated ageing and nutritional problems. Design: Cross-sectional analysis of a representative nationwide survey on health and...
Author(s)
Pérez-Zepeda, M. U.; Castrejón-Pérez, R. C.; Wynne-Bannister, E.; García-Peña, C.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Citation
Public Health Nutrition, 2016, 19, 15, pp 2844-2849
Food security is an integral part of the country's national security. In Russia, as in most countries of the world, ensuring food security is the most important direction of state policy. The aim of the work was a complex economic assessment of the current food security state in Russia. The...
Author(s)
Baroian, A.; Minakova, I.; Dancea, L.
Publisher
Banat's University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Timisoara, Romania
Citation
Research Journal of Agricultural Science, 2021, 53, 4, pp 16-23
Food and nutrition insecurity continues to pose a serious global challenge, reflecting government shortcomings in meeting international obligations to ensure the availability, accessibility, and quality of food and to ensure the highest attainable standard of health of their peoples. With global...
Author(s)
Ayala, A.; Meier, B. M.
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
Public Health Reviews, 2017, 38, 10, pp (9 March 2017)
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the measures imposed to control it have impacted food security globally, particularly among vulnerable populations. Food insecurity, in turn, has repercussions on health, exacerbating pre-existing inequalities. This scoping review maps the literature describing...
Author(s)
Ahmed, D.; Benavente, P.; Diaz, E.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023, 20, 7,
Dietary health and sustainability are inextricably linked. Food systems that are not sustainable often fail to provide the amount or types of food needed to ensure population health. The ongoing pandemic threatens to exacerbate malnutrition, and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This paper discusses ...
Author(s)
Rippin, H. L.; Wickramasinghe, K.; Halloran, A.; Whiting, S.; Williams, J.; Hetz, K.; Pinedo, A.; Breda, J. J.
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Food Security, 2020, 12, 4, pp 859-864
Our food systems are progressively more industrialized and consolidated with many modern food value chains involving multiple countries and continents, and as such being associated with changes in risk profile and impacts of emerging and re-emerging diseases. Disease outbreaks that sweep through a...
Author(s)
Patterson, G. T.; Thomas, L. F.; Coyne, L. A.; Rushton, J.
Publisher
Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Global Food Security, 2020, 26,