Nourishing the mind: how food security influences mental wellbeing

O Ejiohuo, H Onyeaka, KC Unegbu, OG Chikezie… - Nutrients, 2024 - mdpi.com
Food insecurity is a significant public health problem worldwide and critical to mental health.
There is a complex relationship between food security and mental health. We carried out a …

An overview of machine learning applications on plant phenoty**, with a focus on sunflower

L Centorame, T Gasperini, A Ilari, A Del Gatto… - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Machine learning is a widespread technology that plays a crucial role in digitalisation and
aims to explore rules and patterns in large datasets to autonomously solve non-linear …

Value seeking, health-conscious or sustainability-concerned? Profiling fruit and vegetable consumers in Euro-Mediterranean countries

L Camanzi, S Ahmadi Kaliji, P Prosperi… - British Food …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate consumer preferences and profile their food-
related lifestyles, as well as to identify consumer groups with similar attitudes/behaviours in …

Cascade effects of global supply chains induced by regional conflicts increase global inequality

R Zhao, D Wang, Y Ge, M Zhang, D Zhang… - Resources …, 2024 - Elsevier
Regional conflicts have become prominent in triggering shocks on supply chains and
cascade effects on resource management. Reliable assessments of the cascading pattern of …

War in Ukraine: an overview of environmental impacts and consequences for human health

W Leal Filho, JHPP Eustachio, M Fedoruk… - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This paper discusses the significant yet often neglected environmental repercussions of the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the adverse effects on soil, air, water, and …

Cereal-based fermented foods as microbiota-directed products for improved child nutrition and health in sub-Saharan Africa

M Houngbédji, JS Jespersen… - Critical Reviews in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Several strategies, programs and policies have long been developed and implemented to
alleviate child malnutrition in sub-Saharan African countries. However, stunting and wasting …

Cooking readiness in stressful times: Navigating food choices for a healthier future

MD de Barcellos, MG Perin, L Lähteenmäki… - Appetite, 2024 - Elsevier
Food choice is a complex function of preferences and combines a myriad of food-related
factors, such as biological, economic, physical, social, and psychological determinants …

Building Resilient Food Security Against Global Crisis: New Evidence From China

Z Chen, M Zhang, RK Dong… - Food and Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The existing literature addresses the importance of food system disruptions and the risk of
the global food crisis. However, there is insufficient understanding of response strategies …

Sustainable dairy farming and fipronil risk in circular feeds: insights from an Italian case study

M Gasparini, G Brambilla, S Menotta… - Food Additives & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Circular feeds, such as grain dry distillers, citrus pulp, cane molasses, and potatoes peels,
are co-products of biomass processes. They are currently proposed in animal nutrition to …

[HTML][HTML] Globalization vs. Glocalization: Learn Lessons from Two Global Crises, Such as the Russia–Ukraine Conflict and the COVID-19 Pandemic, for the Agro-Food …

TG Bas - Agriculture, 2025 - mdpi.com
This article analyses the impacts of the Russia–Ukraine conflict and the COVID-19
pandemic on the supply chain and logistics related to the management of agro-food …