BACKGROUND: Dietary changes, especially declines in traditional food diversity and increases in the consumption of processed foods, have previously been shown to increase the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. ...

Food is not only nourishment. Food feeds knowledge, practices, and beliefs through generations, and thus it sustains biocultural memories. However, prevailing economic models homogenize biocultural food systems by replacing ...

Fruit and vegetable consumption is recommended in numerous food-based dietary guidelines and forms a key recommendation in many international statements related to healthy diets. There are thousands of fruit and vegetable ...

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 ...

Renewed attention to the ecological limits of the planet has engendered a movement towards collective actions within the food system. This article questions ways to comprehend the nonlinear dynamics in a territory and to ...

Rainfall variability and related hydrological disasters are serious threats to agricultural production in developing countries. Since projections of climate change indicate an increase in the frequency and intensity of ...

Ramorinoa girolae Speg. seeds were characterized in terms of phenolic and flavonoid contents, multielement profile, fatty acid composition and antioxidant activity. The MeOH extract of seeds showed a strong scavenging ...