Sentences with phrase «examining food availability»

«Examining food availability and the competition over such resources, especially where food is abundant, is essential to understanding the frequency of civil war in Africa,» says Ore Koren, a U.S. foreign policy and international security fellow at Dartmouth College and Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Minnesota.

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We aimed to examine the availability of snack food displays at checkouts, end - of - aisle displays and island displays in major supermarket chains in the least and most socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Melbourne.

To examine how the availability of food may have affected armed conflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualties.

The mice were examined in special chambers that can measure expenditure of energy, and the mice were implanted with probes that measured their temperature remotely in various food availability contexts.

First, when examining traditional practices, we see that a good portion, and in some cases, most foods were cooked — particularly grains, legumes and vegetables — even in the tropical climates where fire wasn't necessary for warmth.5 Second, certain foods are just best cooked, fermented or germinated to maximize nutrient availability and absorption.

From climate change to the rights of Florida tomato farmers to the global geopolitics of food, Hungry for Change examines how the availability of food and its production, distribution and consumption are the workings of a deeply complex system that is affected by and affects all of us.