The conflict in Sudan since April 2023 has displaced many academics and students, disrupting education and causing financial hardship. The study highlights how war-related inflation and destruction have worsened food insecurity and healthcare destruction, emphasising the urgent need for international aid to support recovery and rebuild the academic sector.
Rapidly increasing human population and food animal populations are correlated with emergence of new zoonotic infectious diseases. Dependence on a few species of plants and animals for most human food may contribute to food insecurity.
The article explores the associations between three healthy dietary patterns (DASH, aMED, and HDS) and homeostatic dysregulation (HD), a measure of aging-related physiological dysregulation, in a large prospective cohort from less-developed ethnic minority regions in China.
The intermittency of the food deserts positions Chile as halfway between the Global South and North models. The particularity of this model is that intermittently and regularly provides a healthy food environment within food deserts. Additionally, it has the potential to be planned for overcoming structural inequalities in spatial fresh food access. With a focus on Concepcion, Chile, this article analyses the importance of the spatiotemporal dimension in food access studies where a healthy diet depends on systems other than supermarkets characterized by intermittent operation over a week.
The study explores democratisation processes that aim to increase popular control over the production of urban food environments. Based on a case study of East-Central London and using assemblage thinking as an analytical framework, this article explores how more democratic food environments are being (dis)assembled. Our findings highlight the complexity of (dis)assembling practices, which are shaping a partial and fragile version of urban (food) democracy, shifting control away from capitalist structures but, at the same time, relying on state's support for co-designing and co-managing democratic food environments.
This paper examines the positive and negative impacts of urban agriculture on the SDGs. They find that more work is needed to overcome the hurdles that negatively impact SDGs.
Crop rotation diversity can enhance agricultural sustainability and reduce climate-related risks, but adoption remains limited by economic and informational barriers. Analysis of 36,000 yield observations from long-term North American trials shows that while maize and soybean yields rise with rotation diversity, overall outcomes vary by site, with trade-offs from lower-yield crops but clear benefits under poor growing conditions
Global industrial meat production drives major social and ecological harms, yet policy debates often neglect the role of corporate power in sustaining these impacts. Through case studies, this study shows how industry concentration, government ties, weak regulation, and cultural norms enable externalized costs, and calls for systemic policies that confront meat industry power within the broader food system
This study examines the 6-year longitudinal associations between dietary patterns, intrinsic capacity (IC), and IC sub-domains in community-dwelling Korean older adults. The key findings are that in older men, the "variety of healthy foods and alcohols" dietary pattern was positively associated with changes in IC score, while in older women, the "variety of healthy foods" pattern was positively associated with changes in IC score, IC score group, and psychological domain.
The study evaluated the effects of a personalized dietary strategy based on individualized foods and digital tools on the overall health status and quality of life in older adults with overweight or obesity. The precision approach demonstrated significantly better outcomes compared to standard recommendations, including improvements in body weight, body composition, metabolic health, and quality of life.
