Sentences with phrase «risk of food insecurity»

Families are at a far higher risk of food insecurity than individuals, and it can be especially trying for large families to obtain adequate nutritional resources for their families.

• Risk of food insecurity and the breakdown of food systems linked to warming, drought, flooding, and precipitation variability and extremes, particularly for poorer populations in urban and rural settings.

In February, UN World Food Programme Executive Director, Josette Sheeran, estimates that 10 million people, including more than one million children, in the Sahel are at risk of food insecurity due to drought.

During a long stretch of months when many students across the nation are at risk of food insecurity and summer learning loss, summer learning programs are becoming increasingly important and prevalent.

«But when one in four children are at risk of food insecurity and, as a result, chronic hunger, we're not as quick to take action.

The NHF, one of 18 - country - based, pooled funds which allows donors to pool their contributions for a stronger and timelier response to the needs of those most affected by the ongoing crisis, including millions who face a high risk of food insecurity and disease outbreaks.

In Steuben and Chemung Counties, one person in every seven is at risk of food insecurity.

In fact, those living in remote areas are at greater risk of food insecurity than their urban counterparts as, on average, food is up to 50 per cent more expensive in remote communities,» he stated.

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Rockström went on to say, «Increased human pressure threatens the natural resources that humanity depends upon, increasing the risk of water and food insecurity and competition over natural resources.»

The health effects of food insecurity in children can vary from developmental delays to behavioral issues to an increased risk of obesity due to eating highly processed, calorie dense foods.

In addition, inadequate dietary intake during pregnancy and early childhood — which may be a consequence of food insecurity — can increase the risk for (Black et al, 2011; Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, 2010; Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, 2015; Haider et al., 2013):

For children, research shows a link between food insecurity and lower health status, low birth weight, anemia, more frequent colds and stomachaches, asthma, developmental risk, mental health problems, and poor educational performance — all of which have health and economic consequences in the short and long terms.

Furthermore, the application of a validated diabetes risk prediction algorithm in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey in Canada showed that among the individual level SES variables, such as lower household income and food insecurity, predicted a higher diabetes risk in women but not in men (97).

Lower yields of crops or damage to crops, water stress, food insecurity, malnutrition, poor health and increased risk of population migration are forecast to become more common globally.

He pointed out in poor, rural communities around the world where there is significant food insecurity and high risk of disease, larger bodies are considered attractive.

Though Russia is ranked 115 out of 163 nations surveyed and classified as a medium - risk country, the recent heatwave's impact on grain production and the nation's ban on grain exports, combined with a 25 % decrease in Canadian grain production in June, due to flooding, is causing fluctuations in commodity prices, in turn increasing food insecurity in the most vulnerable nations.

Due to their lack of ownership over land (and other reasons mentioned previously), this constant positive feedback loop of injustice leads to women being at a higher risk of losing their land which results in food insecurity and acute poverty.

Joseph Bast, who works with the group, highlighted some of the group's conclusions in Forbes: There is little risk of global food insecurity owing to higher levels of CO2, as higher CO2 will greatly aid plant productivity; «No changes in precipitation patterns, snow, monsoons, or river flows that might be considered harmful to human well - being or plants or wildlife have been observed that could be attributed to rising CO2»; and little risk to aquatic or dry - land ecosystems.

Listing new challenges facing the humanitarian community, this technical document emphasizes that «climate change, population growth, rapid and unplanned urbanization, and food and water insecurity are leaving more and more people at risk of crisis.»

There is little or no risk of increasing food insecurity due to global warming or rising atmospheric CO2 levels.

For example, government policies encouraging expansion of biofuel production from maize have recently contributed to higher food prices for many, increasing food insecurity for populations already at risk, and threatening the livelihoods of those like the urban poor who are struggling with the inherent risks of poverty.

Climate change puts millions of people's lives at risk, trapping them in food insecurity and poverty.

The report, which is the second installment of a three - part series of scientific updates from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sharply warns that climate change poses the greatest risks to the most vulnerable populations within all nations, and a potentially existential risk to poorer countries already struggling with food insecurity and civil conflict, as well as low - lying small island states.

Our study also has key strengths: 1) analyses were based on a community sample and we were able to estimate the burden of behavioural problems associated with food insecurity among children in the general population, while most prior studies focused on high - risk families; 2) longitudinal follow - up of children's mental health allowed us to distinguish different types of symptoms and their developmental patterns over up to 7 years of follow - up; 3) statistical adjustment for multiple individual and family factors potentially associated with children's outcomes.