With increasing global urbanization and environmental threats, ensuring food security for
poor city residents is a critical challenge. An ongoing debate is whether urban agriculture …

Urban agriculture (UA) is promoted because of its contribution to food security and poverty
alleviation. A considerable literature highlights these benefits, but there are also criticisms …

This paper outlines a framework for studying the multiple interactions of broadly defined food
systems with global environmental change and evaluating the major societal outcomes …

Urban agriculture may have a role to play in addressing urban food insecurity problems,
which are bound to become increasingly important with the secular trend towards the …

Rapid economic and income growth, urbanization, and globalization are leading to a
dramatic shift of Asian diets away from staples and increasingly towards livestock and dairy …

Poor households access their food from the market, subsistence production and transfers
from public programmes or other households. In the past rural households produced most of …

Recent analyses of poverty and well-being have broadened their focus from money-metric
measures of income and consumption to livelihood strategies, in order to enhance …

This study asks whether key socioeconomic determinants of child nutritional status differ
across urban and rural areas to investigate why urban malnutrition rates are lower. Little …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyse the associations between the food
variety score (FVS), dietary diversity score (DDS) and nutritional status of children, and to …

Food and nutrition security is critical for economic development due to the role of nutrition in
healthy growth and human capital development. Slum residents, already grossly affected by …