Highlights: Survey-based analysis examined adaptation strategies' effect on small-scale farmers' food security. Positive relationship found between food security and adaptation components. Weed...
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to grow modestly in 2024, returning to the low growth that prevailed in the decade before the pandemic. In addition to examining the macroeconomic outlook...
Highlights: In 2021, UNICEF updated its guidance on the Procurement and Use of Breastmilk Substitutes (BMS) in Humanitarian Settings, which clarifies that where BMS procurement is warranted in humanitarian...
Food loss and waste (FLW) reduction is an important component in the transformation of the region’s agrifood systems. Addressing the drivers of FLW along value chains provides an opportunity to tackle...
This study aimed to investigate Aflatoxin-M1 (AFM1) contamination in pasteurized and raw milk samples consumed in Kerman and Rafsanjan in southeastern Iran. In this cross-sectional study, a total of 100 samples...
This policy brief presents an update on the state of food security and the gendergap in food insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during theCOVID-19 pandemic using...
Introduction
Household food insecurity (FI) is defined as limited or uncertain access to nutritionally adequate and safe food or limited ability to obtain foods in socially acceptable ways...
In this study, we simulate the crop yield and water footprint (WF) of major food crops of Iran on irrigated and rainfed croplands for the historical and the future climate. We assess...
Background and Aims
Food security is a complex and multidimensional issue that has been recognized as a serious public health problem all over the world for the past two decades...
Introduction
Food security as a component of the fundamental foundation in the elderly's health was a priority in the 20-year vision development plan of the country. The main goal of the present study was...