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 … increasing food production and fighting the widespread malnutrition, especially among Filipino children. Since the term food …

Child malnutrition and low-quality diets remain widespread public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa. Providing … contexts. Here, we analyze the role of markets and food environments for child diets and nutrition in Malawi along an urban …-rural continuum. We develop a new methodology to characterize food environments in terms of the variety of fresh and processed foods …

This paper deals with the role of regional trade in fostering the resilience of domestic food markets. Using country … the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and … pace of regional trade expansion and thus its contribution to creating more resilient domestic food markets through modest …

We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and … the food system. A unique classification of food items shows that highly processed food has one-third of the purchased … food market, with comparable shares in rural and urban areas (31 per cent vs 35 per cent), and among the vulnerable and …