An expert on food policy explains how the end of COVID-19 waivers will impact children’s access to food, as well as the importance of food banks and pantries.
The Burren, in western Ireland, is home to a traditional regenerative system of cattle management known as winterage.
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Industry seeks to capitalize on regenerative agriculture, but standards that focus only on carbon or other select environmental metrics will undermine its transformative potential
A Ukrainain boy sits in a swing at a playground outside a building destroyed during attacks in Irpin, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, in May 2022.
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Ukraine is facing a struggle for survival. Its population could fall to 30 million by the time the war ends, with cities destroyed, crops expropriated and thousands already killed and wounded.
Traders examine bales of tobacco, which is among Zimbabwe’s key exports, at a March 2022 auction in Harare.
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As Zimbabwe heads for 2023 presidential elections, there are key things voters should watch out for in the social protection promises made by candidates.
Ukraine’s sea port of Mariupol, blockaded and now fallen to Russian forces.
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Ukraine is one of the world’s breadbaskets, but exports have been blockaded by Russia. Despite grave potential consequences in famine-prone countries, international law is largely silent.
Food prescriptions provide patients with vouchers that can be spent on fruits and vegetables.
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Food security is crucial to disease prevention and management, so prescribing healthy foods and reducing barriers to better diets makes sense. But food prescriptions should not be immune to scrutiny.
Food parcels and soup being handed out in Orlando West in Soweto, South Africa.
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More than a third of people living in South Africa’s richest province Gauteng can’t afford to buy enough food.
Thirty-six percent of surveyed families with young children said they did not have enough diapers during the pandemic.
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Climate change is already cutting crop yields. War and unrest are likely to compound these issues for food-importing nations.
A wheat warehouse in western Ukraine. Food insecurity is expected to worsen with rising food prices and the war trapping wheat, barley and corn in Ukraine and Russia.
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Jessica Eise, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Far more people are dying of hunger around the world than in Europe’s new war.
People in the Russian city of St. Petersburg stand in line to withdraw U.S. dollars and euros from an ATM. Ordinary Russians faced the prospect of higher prices as western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine sent the ruble plummeting.
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Over-reliance on sanctions and economic warfare measures have led to strategic complacency and the avoidance of negotiations on the part of the western governments.
Food is a fundamental human right. But governments have left it to charities and food suppliers to step in after disasters. That has to change as climate change throws up greater stresses.
Exposure to healthy nutrition from adolescence can set the stage for a healthy life ahead and good dietary habits.
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Adolescence lies between childhood and adulthood, but adolescents are neither big children nor little adults. They have increased food requirements to support their rapid physical growth and maturation.
A new study found that the child tax credit advance payments immediately helped families who were suffering from food insufficiency.
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The 2021 child tax credit expansion helped lift millions of families with children out of hunger. After those payments ended in December 2021, those families may again face food insufficiency.
The majority of child care workers are women and people of color.
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Helping more city-dwellers to grow their own fruit and veg could improve health, wellbeing and food security for growing populations.
Internationally, school meal programs have shown to be one of the most successful drivers of improved health, education and economic growth.
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The time is ripe to develop federal-provincial/territorial accords towards implementing a national school nutritious meal program.
A woman wades through mud to collect items from her home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The devastation brought by hurricanes Eta and Iota in Honduras in November 2020 contributed to a sharp rise in northward migration.
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