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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Food acquisition"”.
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Examining food acquisition behaviors and diet quality in adults
Food acquisition is the process of obtaining food. Food acquisition can be conceptualized across an ecological framework and includes the community food environment and the home food environment. Food is often initially obtained within a community environment, including from food-at-home retailers …
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Food sovereignty’s potential to address poverty and hunger by creating sustainable peasant led agri-food systems: a case study from the Brazilian food acquisition programme in Mirandiba, Pernambuco
Food sovereignty is an alternative agricultural and rural development paradigm advocated by the international peasant movement La Vía Campesina. This investigation analyses food sovereignty through a historical cross-scale analysis focusing on the livelihoods of peasants in the sertão in …
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Food Security and Social Networks: Impacts for Smallholder Farmers in the Mount Elgon Region of Kenya and Uganda
… between smallholder farm household networks for food acquisition and agricultural production, food security and dietary quality in the Mount Elgon region of western Kenya and eastern Uganda. Food security and dietary quality were measured through calorie consumption of the female household head …
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Three essays on food economics
… is comprised of three analyses of households' food acquisition behavior. In Chapter 2, we estimate the substitution between different food categories and time allocated to food purchase and preparation using a demand system which includes both the demand for time and that for goods, by …
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“We have a roof over our head, but we have to eat too": Tracing the impact of shifting foodsapes on health and wellbeing from homelessness to supportive housing
… degree of agency and resilience procuring food. Within this geography if food acquisition, what happens in and along the way also becomes deeply embedded in complex social and spatial processes – or foodscapes. Purpose: By exploring people’s shifting foodscapes during the transition from …
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Análise do programa de aquisição de alimentos (paa) na comunidade negra de Camará
… have had problems to sell their products. The Food Acquisition Program (FAP) is one of the actions executed by Zero Hunger Program. It aims at ensuring people to have access to food, and also help the farmers to sell their products from family farming. Thereby, the farmers are helped to face …
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Exploring diachronic changes in activity, diet and health on the prehistoric Baltic coast
… lifestyles, which determined a change in their food-sourcing methods. Although the biological effects to changing subsistence patterns are generally well-understood, more recent studies show regional variation in agriculture’s impact on human biology. Archaeology has shown that ancient Baltic …
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Bringing Food Home: A Study on the Changing Nature of Household Interaction With Urban Food Markets in Accra, Ghana
This dissertation explores the changing nature of food provisioning in the contemporary Third World city, employing the experience of Accra, Ghana, as a case study. The issue is studied by examining changes that are occurring within urban food markets, and how households are altering their food …
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Behavioral Evidence for "Contextual Decision Hierarchies" In the Hermit Crab, Pagurus samuelis
… the hermit crab, Pa gurus samuelis, deprived of food, shells, or both will respond differently from control hermit crabs when presented with food and shells concurrently. Differences in the number of contacts with each resource and the time elapsed before choosing a resource confirmed that …
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Diet overlap and habitat segregation between redbreast sunfish and age-o smallmouth bass in the North Anna River, Virginia
… because of their common consumption of Baetidae. Food acquisition was not a serious problem for either species during the summer. Empty stomachs were rare, and total volume of diet items in stomachs remained fairly consistent. Densities of aquatic-based food resources measured in pools and …
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Foodscapes, Foodways, and Nutrition Transitions in Urban Mexico
… concern for how social class shapes local food environments, eating patterns, and vulnerability to obseogenic diets. In this study, I combine national-level economic analysis with ethnographic methods used by urban geographers and applied anthropologists to analyze national economic and …
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Using Rigid and Soft Grippers for Assistive Robotic Tasks
… a proxy for the human's arm: the user inputs the food they want to eat, and the robot autonomously picks up that food and brings it to the user's mouth. Unfortunately, end user adoption of robot-assisted feeding is limited, in part because existing devices are unable to seamlessly grasp, …
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Exploring the Soft Tissue of the Archosaurian Feeding System through Evolutionary and Developmental Temporal Space
… modifications aiding in locomotion and food acquisition, which included diversification in teeth morphology. Different teeth morphology allowed tetrapods to take advantage of different ecological niches through food specialization. As useful as teeth are, we can see the repeated …
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Ecological effects of turbidity variations in and around dredging areas in the Port of Tauranga
… showed efficiencies in increasing the quality of food ingested by pipis and thus regulating their energy acquisition in high turbidity treatments. However, above a threshold, responses in feeding rates indicated limitations of particle selection mechanisms. This suggests that further increases in …
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The impact of food geography on consumer and producer welfare
I study the interactions between food prices, food retail environment and food demand. Given the rising debate on how to improve the quality of food purchases and consumption by changing the food geography in the United States, the overall goal of my dissertation is to understand the nature, causes …