Human Security is a concept instituted by the United Nations and refers to the possibility that each person can satisfy basic needs of different kinds: Health, food, environment, education, economy, politics, institutional ...

Part I-Exploring Hunger, discusses the various definitions and interpretations of the word hunger, its causes and global efforts to eliminate its extreme forms. Particular focus is placed on Goal 1 of the Millennium ...

Food insecurity is a major challenge facing Peru's Indigenous Shawi communities, who receive food support through national level programs. There is limited research, however, on how national food and social programming ...

Background: Contemporary living conditions present opportunities that promote obesity. In addition, traditional nutritional intervention have been considered inefficient, and there is a demand for the development and ...

This study aims to identify the determinants associated to food insecurity in a group of households composed of schoolchildren and their mothers/caregivers, who lived in a low-to-medium community development index area of ...

Objective: To evaluate the association between food and nutrition insecurity and asthma in children from Latin America. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, north-eastern Brazil. Subjects: ...

The huge transformations that occurred in the last two decades had impacts on the standards of food production and consumption, and determined a wider discussion in Brazil about the theme of food and nutrition security. ...

The problem of food and nutrition insecurity in the region has been widely studied in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, despite the progress achieved in the last four decades, much work ...