In the past few decades, the Nepali government has endorsed several nutritional policies, strategies, and guidelines. Given the lack of a comprehensive review of such policy documents, this review aims to describe the nutrition and food security policies and understand the existing policy gaps in...
Author(s)
Nabin Adhikari; Mukesh Adhikari; Namuna Shrestha; Priza Pradhananga; Bikram Poudel; Dhungel, S.; Joshi, P. C.; Ide, N.; Sharma, G. N.; Shrestha, A.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
Citation
Nutrition Reviews, 2023, 81, 12, pp 1612-1625
Without refute, a sustainable global food security can only be achieved when all folks have physical, social and economic access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient supply of food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for healthy life. To this end, quest to achieve this dream has been on ...
Author(s)
Bankefa, O. E.; Oladeji, S. J.; Ayilara-Akande, S. O.; Lasisi, M. M.
Publisher
Springer (India) Private Limited, New Delhi, India
Citation
Journal of Food Science and Technology (Mysore), 2020, 58, 6, pp 2041-2053
Preventing malnutrition is one of the primary objectives of many humanitarian agencies, and household surveys are regularly employed to monitor food insecurity caused by political, economic, or environmental crises. Consumption frequencies for standard food groups are often collected to...
Author(s)
Gorzycka-Sikora, A.; Mock, N.; Lacey, M.
Publisher
Public Library of Sciences (PLoS), San Francisco, USA
Citation
PLoS ONE, 2023, 18, 3,
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the population and economies. It also undermined food security and food system sustainability. In this context, this review paper analyses the outbreak impacts on the different dimensions of food security (viz. availability, access, utilisation,...
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Colafemmina, D.; El-Bilali, H.; Capone, R.
Publisher
University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Agriculture, East Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Citation
XI International Scientific Agriculture Symposium "AGROSYM 2020", Jahorina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 8-9 October 2020. Book of Proceedings, 2020, pp 925-933
Global food security is a worldwide concern. Food insecurity is a significant threat to poverty and hunger eradication goals. Agriculture is one of the focal points in the global policy agenda. Increases in agricultural productivity through the incorporation of technological advances or expansion...
Author(s)
Paudel, D.; Neupane, R. C.; Sigdel, S.; Poudel, P.; Khanal, A. R.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Sustainability, 2023, 15, 10,
Rising rates of hunger and food insecurity have sparked a major re-evaluation of all aspects of food systems. Because of the multifaceted nature of food insecurity, however, determining what actions should be taken is challenging, especially since reevaluation efforts are led by experts from...
Author(s)
Sumsion, R. M.; June, H. M.; Cope, M. R.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Foods, 2023, 12, 9,
Over the past several decades, cities worldwide have attempted to reconfigure their food systems to improve public health, advance social justice, and promote environmental resilience using diverse municipal policies, often with the support of stakeholder-led governance mechanisms such as food...
Publisher
Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, USA
Citation
Annual Review of Public Health, 2021, 43, pp 419-437
Many regions of the world still suffer from food insecurity, undernourishment and hunger problems. These problems are basically caused by a changing climate, natural disasters, depletion of natural resources, rapid population growth, lack of knowledge, conflicts and wars. Governments and United...
Author(s)
Bilgin, D. G.; Özhanli, H.; Mutlu, C.; Erbas, M.
Publisher
VÚP Food Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
Citation
Journal of Food and Nutrition Research, 2022, 61, 2, pp 107-115
Provision of safe food and food security are the most studied topics of current era. Assurance of food safety in developing countries i.e., India and Pakistan are always compromised due to lack of an appropriate structure and framework. Though there are a lot of legislations and laws in the...
Author(s)
Khan, N. U.; Fahad Hassan; Farah Deeba; Hafsa Yamin; Sohaib Afzaal
Publisher
Consulting and Training Centre, KEY, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Citation
Journal of Hygienic Engineering and Design, 2020, 32, pp 33-40
This chapter examines the problem of food insecurity and malnutrition as a consequence of natural or manmade disasters, and offers guidelines for the identification and management of food insecurity and malnutrition, and for planning an effective food aid and nutrition programmes. Particular...
Publisher
Woodhead Publishing India Pvt, Ltd, New Delhi, India
Citation
Public health nutrition in developing countries: Part 1 and 2, 2011, pp 898-931