Limited economic and physical capacities as well as environmental and economic shocks have constrained the ability of many Nigerian households to feed themselves adequately. This has resulted in these households being faced with food shortages; and they have to adopt various consumption-related...

An estimated 85.7 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2013, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (14.3 percent) were food insecure at least some time...

Rapid economic growth in some emerging economies in recent decades has significantly increased their global economic importance. If this rapid growth continues and is strongest in resource-poor Asian economies, the growth in global demand for imports of primary products also will continue, to...

Pakistan is one of the leading producers of important agricultural commodities in the world with a relatively high proportion of undernourished population (26 %). This study aims to examine the food security trends in Pakistan in general, and to find out the household level food security and its...

This study evaluates the impact of food security program – an almost universal program of Indonesian Social Safety Net Program in the time of economic crisis. Food security program aimed to protect poor households from the negative effects of economic crisis by means of highly subsidized rice....

Le seguridad alimentaria es una expresion que se utiliza con frecuencia en publicaciones y medios de comunicacion. No obstante, su significado varia en gran medida de un lector a otro. A menudo, los conceptos en relacion con el hambre, la hambruna y la seguridad alimentaria son imprecisos y no...

En los ultimos anos la volatilidad de los mercados agrarios ha aumentado notablemente. En este articulo se analizan las causas de este aumento, abordandose cuestiones como el deficit de liveralizacion existente en el comercio agrario internacional, la especulacion financiera en los mercados de...

La situacion alimentaria mundial s ha agravado desde los anos 2007-2008 con una brutal elevacion de los precios de los productos alimentarios que ha incrementado sensiblemente el numero de personas que sufren sintomas de hambre. El analisis de los factores coyunturales y estructurales de esta...

In 2001, about 56,000 adults were estimated to be food insecure in Sacramento County. This number tends to keep rising eventhough several federal food assistance programs are available to the low-income population. The objectives of our study were to describe the population using emergency food...