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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Food-sharing"”.
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A network analysis of household food sharing in Zambia
Current and future food security are threatened by impending population growth, increasing demand for resource intensive foods, and climate change. Coping strategies at various scales have been proposed to help food security. One potential strategy is household sharing. Household sharing is an …
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Food Waste Reduction through Food Sharing Initiatives: The lived Experiences of Restaurants and Food Bank Employees in Riyadh
… of the same world, about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year. We do not know enough about what contributes to food waste. However, there seems to be an emergent pattern of behaviour around sharing food. This hermeneutic phenomenological research will explore how food sharing might …
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Coming Together Over Table: The Role of Food in Georgian Conflict Resolution Practices
… One strategy to de-escalate a conflict is to use food during conflict resolution efforts. So, what specifically does consuming food and beverage do to break down conflict escalation cycles? Food-sharing brings several aspects to conflict that the literature suggests address how and why conflict …
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The Cross Border Food Security of Vuntut Gwitchin Food Security
… challenges in accessing and securing traditional foods for household consumption. While commercial foods have become more readily available, the nutritional quality is far inferior to traditional wild foods. Maintaining access to reliable and nutritious food sources is a part of a larger social …
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The Dynamics of Social Hierarchy
… in prestige status were more likely to aid in food sharing and food production, and that the prestige status of an individual’s food sharing and food production partners increased their prestige status over a period of twelve years among the Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of Bolivia. …
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A comparative investigation of the attribution of desires and preferences
… desires of others may be applied outside of the food sharing context, as well as the flexibility of this sensitivity within food sharing (Chapters 4-6). Finally, I considered the similarities between the responses of Eurasian jays and humans and discuss the consequences of these findings for the …
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Exploring foodscapes in Small Island Developing States through a transition lens: a mixed-methods investigation
This research is an investigation of foodscapes in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). I explore the complex relationships shaping food systems, diet, and health with respect to the social practices involved in sourcing food in this context. SIDS are a group of 57 diverse countries that have …
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Who Cares? How Caregivers Influence Communicative and Cognitive Development During Early Childhood
… supplementing the infant’s energy needs through food sharing. However, before age two, infants are not yet highly capable communicators. Thus, infants face a challenge in successfully recruiting AMC. However, when infants can successfully communicate their needs (e.g., cries communicating ‘I need …
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Identifying impacts of non-climatic factors on food security of Indigenous Peoples in the pan-Arctic region
… explores the vulnerability of Arctic Indigenous food systems to food insecurity resulting from the combined impacts of climatic and non-climatic stressors. While climate change poses significant threats to traditional food practices and access, this study emphasizes the importance of …
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Spiritual Agency and Sustainability Transitions Exploring Food Practices in Three Hare Krishna Eco-Communities
… Sustainability Transitions. The pivotal role of food in greenhouse gas emissions is widely acknowledged across disciplines, yet it is under-researched by Sustainability Transitions scholars. Likewise, while sustainable diets comprising of less meat are often associated with spiritual and ethical …
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A non-human primate model of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex dysfunction in schizophrenia
… demonstrating a lack of prosocial behaviour in a food-sharing task, and that this is not changed by dlPFC PNN degradation. In Chapter 6, I demonstrate that marmosets show novel object recognition memory at both 5-minute and 24-hour delays, but PNN degradation in the dlPFC impairs recognition …
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Challenges and opportunities for socially just food systems in rural Scotland: an ethnographic exploration into how rurality shapes responses to and lived experiences of food insecurity among parents and carers in north-east Scotland.
… from securing access to sufficient and adequate food for a healthy diet, challenging the realisation of their human right to food. Food insecurity has become an acute social, political and public health concern, particularly amongst families with children. The increasing pressure on household …
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Foraging and Menstruation in the Hadza of Tanzania
… of labour. Studies of their foraging and food sharing habits serve as the foundation to numerous hypotheses of human behaviour and evolution. Data from the Hadza have featured heavily in debates on the sexual division of labour. These debates focus predominantly on men’s foraging, …
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Linking behaviour and physiology of female bonobos (Pan paniscus)
… able to get hold of and defend monopolisable food items without the help of other females in feeding experiments. No relationship between genital rubbing and food sharing was found and no female-female coalitions were formed during these experiments. Interventions in conflicts outside the …