Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and humanitarian challenges such as war conflict, climate changes, economic crises bring unexpected challenges, food insecurity. Especially for developing countries, this is a double crisis, poverty pandemic. This situation needs an alternative network (AFN), which can improve the local sources to fulfill demand. hubs’ (LFHs) development AFN that considers produce...

Previous observational studies in developing countries have suggested that diet quality, particularly increased animal source food (ASF) consumption, is positively associated with child cognitive development. This report presents findings from a study in rural Kenya, designed to test the impact of three different diets on the cognitive development of school children. Twelve schools with a total...

Understanding how plants extract resources and use them to support growth has important implications for understanding subsequent processes, including population dynamics of plants, competition for limiting resources by different species, and population dynamics of herbivores and predators. Here, we develop and discuss a qualitative model of plant growth based on exploitation of resources. We a...

In the Neolithic Age (10 000–3000 BC) humans transitioned from hunter–gatherer to cultivation of crops and domestication of animals for food. As they entered the Bronze Age, humans learned from practical experience about food preparation and shifted some of their plant and animal exploitations to make a variety of foods some of which could be stored for long periods. Although there was little i...

Food allergy is an important health issue. The estimated prevalence among adults in Western Europe is thought to be between 1 and 2%, with the frequency in infants being greater (approximately 5%). Most confirmed food allergies are associated with a relatively limited range of produce, including cow's milk, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, fish and shellfish, although the prevalence of allergy ...

Breast cancer is the second most common worldwide and cause of death for women. Its plasticity variability suggest a multifactorial origin, with powerful influence environmental factors. Current scientific evidence pinpoints food specific nutrients as crucial factors in breast tumor development. More precisely, dietary components can actively participate suppression and/or progression by introd...