This paper brings attention to the effects of PRWORA on householdlevel Food Stamps recipiency, Food Stamps allotments, and food security among children of immigrants using the Survey of Program Dynamics. This paper further seeks to examine the affect of cutbacks on welfare allotments on “mixed status” families and whether any such changes in Food Stamps receipt and allotments led to higher leve...

OBJECTIVE Women (especially mothers) are theorized as critical to reducing household food insecurity through their work and caregiver roles. The present study tests these assumptions, assessing how maternal economic and social resources are associated with food insecurity in households with young children. DESIGN Data from a population-based sample of households was collected in León, Nicarag...

BACKGROUND Despite the effects of food insecurity on health are well documented, clear governmental policies to face food insecurity do not exist in western countries. In Canada, interventions to face food insecurity are developed at the community level and can be categorized into two basic strategies: those providing an immediate response to the need for food, defined "traditional" and those t...

Food insecurity is common in developing countries and related to the physical well being of families. Household food insecurity is intended to reflect a household's access, availability, and utilization of food. The relationship between paternal smoking and household food insecurity has not been well characterized. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship of paternal smoking ...

Future climate changes will affect smallholder farmers in the developing world, posing threats to household food security. Nevertheless, there remains limited comparable evidence across multiple countries and regions regarding the global extent of climate shocks affecting smallholder food security. We examine data from 5,299 household surveys across 15 countries in Latin America, Africa and Sou...

Background Food insecurity is an ongoing problem in the Canadian Arctic. Although most studies have focused on smaller communities, little is known about food insecurity in larger centres. Objectives This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of food insecurity during 2 different seasons in Iqaluit, the territorial capital of Nunavut, as well as identify associated risk factors. Designs A modi...

Food security is “the right of every individual to have access to safe and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger.”1 Despite the well-known association between food insecurity and type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, mental distress, and poor health in general,2-4 food insecurity is steadily inc...

INTRODUCTION Few studies have investigated the relationship between dietary pattern and household food insecurity. The objective of the present analysis was to describe the food consumption patterns and to relate these with the prevalence of food insecurity in the context of a rural community. METHODOLOGY Three hundred and seven (307) randomly selected households in Kilosa district participat...

OBJECTIVE Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability or access to nutritionally adequate, culturally appropriate and safe foods. Food insecurity may result in inadequate dietary intakes, overweight or obesity and the development of chronic disease. Internationally, few studies have focused on the range of potential health outcomes related to food insecurity among adults residing i...

Most food insecurity research within the United States has focused on the headcount ratio of food insecurity, whic is, the percentage of households that are considered food insecure. Although this measure is important, using this measure alone, ignores the variation within the food hardship being experienced by U.S. households. In 2008, Dr. Craig Gundersen translated the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke ...