develop the agriculture sector and ensure food security and nutrition, have made significant strides toward this goal, albeit …Based on The Economist's 2021 Global Food Security Index (GFSI), the Philippines ranked 64th out of 113 countries in … terms of its four dimensions of food security. After the World War II ended, the world still had to contend with population …

This article formulates three insights that might be helpful in sustainably improving global food security: (a …) Combating hunger requires combating poverty. (b) Public discourse is often blocked because we fail to ask the right questions … institutionalized solidarity. But exactly this is of utmost importance: An effective fight against global hunger requires …

In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and … eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner … workers' households. We also find that the price controls were particularly effective in changing the pattern of food spending …

More than 800 million people suffer from hunger in the world. Using modern plant breeding methods to generate so …

Organic food markets in developed countries have been rapidly expanding in recent years. Though expected health … benefits are a major motive for buying organic food (OF), the health effects of consuming OF are uncertain. This study uses … survey data from Germany, 2007, to explore the causal relationship between OF consumption and self-rated health status. While …

The paper is a documentation of a (non-representative) survey on the food situation of households in the Grodno region …, Belarus. It covers the year between September 2000 and August 2001. The focus of the survey was on the sources of food in the … (consumption, feed use, sale, unpaid transfers to other households, and spoilage). The paper describes the survey design and the …

consumption is two and a half times larger for households that can afford to cut the value of food consumption (75th quantile …) than for households at the bottom (25th quantile) of the food-consumption distribution. Similarly, households with diets …We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …

intake and overconsumption of calories is presented. It is argued that changes in food consumption patterns are one of the … is a prime motive of food consumption, it will be argued that with a growing variety of food items other motives …In order to explain the growth of obesity in industrialized and transition economies, a behavioral approach to food …