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Abrar Almalki, Balakrishna Gokaraju, Nikhil Mehta and Daniel Adrian Doss
Food access is a major key component in food security, as it is every individual?s right to proper access to a nutritious and affordable food supply. Low access to healthy food sources influences people?s diet and activity habits. Guilford County in Nort...
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He Jin and Yongmei Lu
The retail food environment draws much attention from scholars because it can shape individuals? eating behaviors and health outcomes. Although much progress has been made, current retail food environment assessments mainly use simple food accessibility ...
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Elizabeth Major, Elizabeth C. Delmelle and Eric Delmelle
Scholars are in agreement that the local food environment is shaped by a multitude of factors from socioeconomic characteristics to transportation options, as well as the availability and distance to various food establishments. Despite this, most place-...
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Man Zhang, Wen Guo, Na Zhang, Hairong He, Yu Zhang, Mingzhu Zhou, Jianfen Zhang, Muxia Li and Guansheng Ma
Objective: To investigate the association between the neighborhood food environment and body mass index (BMI) among Chinese older adults. Methods: A multi-stage stratified random sampling method was used to recruit participants from 12 communities in Bei...
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Eric Robitaille, Gabrielle Durette, Marianne Dubé, Olivier Arbour and Marie-Claude Paquette
This study aims to bridge the gap between the potential and realized spatial access to food outlets in rural areas of Québec, Canada. By assessing both aspects, this research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the challenges faced by rural ...
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Anke Brons and Peter Oosterveer
In light of global climate change the relevance of sustainable food consumption is growing, yet access to it has not correspondingly developed. This paper addresses the issue of accessing sustainable food from a practice theories perspective. The case of...
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Lauren Futrell Dunaway, Thomas Carton, Ping Ma, Adrienne R. Mundorf, Kelsey Keel and Katherine P. Theall
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Shreema Rana, R. Rijanta, Rini Rachmawati
Pág. 88 - 96
Based on the threatening global challenge of increasing urban population with decreasing resources to feed them, the existing literature is reviewed in this paper to highlight; i) the urban food supply chain, and ii) food security as a benefit of Peri-Ur...
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Ann Forsyth, Leslie Lytle, David Van Riper
A significant amount of travel is to find food. This paper examines challenges in measuring access to food using GIS, of importance in studies of both travel and eating behavior. It compares different sources of data available including fieldwork, land u...
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Simphiwe Innocentia Hlatshwayo, Temitope Oluwaseun Ojo, Albert Thembinkosi Modi, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Rob Slotow and Mjabuliseni Simon Cloapas Ngidi
Addressing the disproportionate burden of food insecurity in South Africa requires targeted efforts to help smallholder farmers to access markets. The purpose of this study was to assess determinants of market participation and its contribution to househ...
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Angela D. Liese, Xiaonan Ma, Brent Hutto, Patricia A. Sharpe, Bethany A. Bell and Sara Wilcox
Low-income areas in which residents have poor access to healthy foods have been referred to as ?food deserts.? It is thought that improving food access may help curb the obesity epidemic. Little is known about where residents of food deserts shop and if ...
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Waheed Mobolaji Ashagidigbi, Olajumoke Oluwatoyosi Orilua, Kehinde Ademola Olagunju and Abiodun Olusola Omotayo
Gender inequality in access to productive and economic resources has been a topical issue in sub-Saharan Africa. The restrictive access to resources, assets and decision making by women has been linked to food insecurity. Using a large cross-sectional da...
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Fábio Resende de Araújo,Diego Fiel Santos,Maria Arlete Duarte de Araújo
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O artigo aborda como o Direito Humano à Alimentação Adequada é promovido por políticas de acesso aalimentos, tendo como estudo de caso a unidade Natal-RN do Projeto Café do Trabalhador. O referencial teórico doestudo apoia-se na avaliação de políticas pú...
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Emmanuel Donkor, Victor Owusu, Enoch Owusu-Sekyere and Abiodun A. Ogundeji
Achieving a sustainable food supply is crucial to meet the ever-increasing demand emanating from high population growth, rising consumer incomes, and high rates of urbanisation in developing countries including Ghana. The adoption of farm innovations in ...
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Daniel N. Warshawsky
This paper examines how institutional power dynamics in South Africa’s urban food system have restricted the quantity, quality, and type of data collected on food institutions and limited the range of research and policy as a result. In particular,...
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Daniel N. Warshawsky
This paper examines how institutional power dynamics in South Africa?s urban food system have restricted the quantity, quality, and type of data collected on food institutions and limited the range of research and policy as a result. In particular, while...
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Junfeng Jiao
Coined by the author, the concept ?transit desert? is developed from the now common concept of a ?food desert,? which is an area where there is limited or no access to fresh food (Clark et al. 2002; Jiao et al. 2012; Whelan et al. 2002; Wrigley 1993; Wri...
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Khalid Zaman
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The major contribution of this study is to access number of income and non-income welfare indicators i.e., human development indicators (comprises primary school enrollment, secondary school enrollment, education expenditures, literacy rate, life expecta...
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Robert B. Richardson
Food security in developing countries depends in part on the sustainable use of natural resources. Food security is usually examined through three dimensions, namely the availability, access, and utilization of food. Ecosystems directly and indirectly su...
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Dele Raheem
Food and nutrition security builds resilience in a society when people have access to safe and nutritious foods. The Barents region, covering the Northern parts of Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and the North-western part of Russia, seeks common goals that...
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