An in-depth understanding of how citizens make their food choices is necessary to develop
targeted strategies to promote healthier dietary habits. However, studies with vulnerable …

Food security, defined as the capacity to acquire preferred food at all times, can manifest in
many dimensions. Following a mixed methods approach used in India and Burkina Faso, we …

Background Constraints on food choice increase risk of malnutrition worldwide. Residents of
secondary cities within low-and middle-income countries are a population of particular …

Background Food insecurity continues to be a problem throughout the world. When
estimating food insecurity, few studies analyze the contexts where the phenomenon takes …

Food security is an encompassing concept that includes several dimensions: sufficiency,
acceptability, safety, stability and nutritional quality. Lately, diverse studies discuss how …

The goal of this study was to measure food insecurity among families with children in a low-
income district of Lima, Peru and to identify the formal and informal food resources available …

Food insecurity has been associated with negative short, medium, and long-term health
consequences, which are more detrimental for children and adolescents. These effects may …

Objective: To explore and provide contextual meaning around issues surrounding food
insecurity, namely factors influencing food access, as one domain of food security. Design: A …

ObjectiveTo adapt a scale to measure perceptions on food insecurity and hunger among
households in urban and rural communities in Peru. DesignQualitative and quantitative …

This study aims to identify the determinants associated to food insecurity in a group of
households composed of schoolchildren and their mothers/caregivers, who lived in a low-to …