scholarly journals FOOD SECURITY OF THE POPULATIONS OF THE COMMUNE OF GOGOUNOU IN BENIN: CONTRIBUTION OF EDIBLE PLANT NATURAL RESOURCES

2022 ◽  
Vol 06 (06) ◽  
pp. 128-141
Author(s):  
Nadiatou BOUKARY IBRAHIM ◽  
Paulin Jésutin DOSSOU ◽  
Boni SOUNON BOUKO
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Edible Plant

scholarly journals Governing Net Zero Carbon Removals to Avoid Entrenching Inequities

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Healey ◽  
Robert Scholes ◽  
Penehuro Lefale ◽  
Pius Yanda
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Burden Sharing ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Global North ◽  
Zero Carbon ◽  
Interdisciplinary Effort ◽  
Global Agreement

Climate change embeds inequities and risks reinforcing these in policies for climate change remediation. In particular, with policies designed to achieve “net zero” carbon dioxide, offsets may be considered inequitable if seen to avoid or delay gross emission reductions; offsets to emissions through technologically mature methods of carbon dioxide removals (CDR) require natural resources at scales threatening food security; knowledge of the potential of immature CDR is largely a global north monopoly; and CDR in particular environments is ill-understood and its implications for development unexamined. The use of CDR to contribute to robust progress toward Paris climate goals requires global agreement on simultaneously reducing emissions and enhancing removals, equity in burden sharing, and an interdisciplinary effort led by individual jurisdictions and focused on the co-development of technologies and governance to create CDR portfolios matched to local needs.

Economic and Environmental Costs of Meat Waste in the US

2021 ◽  
pp. 685-702
Author(s):  
Nicholas Hardersen ◽  
Jadwiga R. Ziolkowska
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nitrous Oxide ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
The United States ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Total Annual Cost ◽  
Livestock Breeding ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

Food waste is a major issue around the globe impacting food security, resource use, economic operations, and the environment. Meat waste, constituting approximately half of total annual meat production in the United States, is particularly relevant to address due to significant resource inputs used in livestock breeding and the meat production process. In this chapter, the authors monetize annual costs of natural resources including water, land, and energy, as well as emissions of methane and nitrous oxide embedded in wasted meat in the United States. Results indicate the total annual cost of $32-32.5 billion. The outcomes substantiate the need to reduce current levels of wasted meat in order to minimize economic, social, and environmental impacts on natural resources and make food and meat production more sustainable.

Utilization of Agro Waste

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-159
Author(s):  
Savita Budhwar ◽  
Manali Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Solid State ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Solid State Fermentation ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Normal Human ◽  
Anti Inflammatory

Agro-wastes are one of the major sources for nutritional and therapeutic purposes along with other beneficial properties according to some ongoing studies. Yet they are not being utilized properly; instead, these wastes are being discarded in open air, causing pollution. Conservation of such natural resources is a healthy approach, and it's economic and eco-friendly. too. Novel formulated food products from these agro-wastes can be utilized as an unconventional source of nutrients and a therapeutic weapon for diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, etc. along with normal human consumption. Utilization of such agro-wastes as food products will also be useful to combat malnourished state leading to rural development and maintenance of food security in cheap prices for a healthy seeks. It also shows a possible role as antibiotics, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory agents, adsorbents, enzyme extracting sources, insulators, and food additives along with its contribution in solid state fermentation, beneficial in dairy industries.

scholarly journals ``Locusts are now our beef'': Adult mortality and household dietary use of local environmental resources in rural South Africa1

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (69_suppl) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori M. Hunter ◽  
Wayne Twine ◽  
Laura Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
Adult Mortality ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Environmental Resources ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Rural Africa

There is currently a lack of research on the association between demographic dynamics and household use of natural resources in rural Africa. Such work is important because in rural Africa natural resources buffer households against shocks, offering both sustenance and income-generating potential. Aims: The article focuses on adult mortality as a household shock, examining use of local environmental resources as related to household dietary needs. Methods: The authors analyze two sources of data collected during May—December 2004 in the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) in rural South Africa. Quantitative analyses use survey data from 240 households, stratified by adult mortality experience. Qualitative data are based on 31 interviews with members of households having recently experienced adult mortality. Results: The interviews provide insight into a variety of household-level mortality impacts and also suggest the importance of proximate resources in the maintenance of food security following the loss of an adult household member. Quantitatively, there are significant differences, both in patterns of usage of the natural environment and in levels of food security, between households that have lost an adult and those that have not. The association between mortality and household use of local environmental resources is further shaped by the gender of the deceased and the time elapsed since the death. Conclusions: Adult mortality, particularly the death of a male wage-earner, affects household food security. Time allocation is affected as resource collection responsibilities shift, and wild foods may substitute for previously purchased goods.

scholarly journals Natural Resources and Food Security: Fish‐for‐Sex Relationships Around Lake Victoria, Kenya

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Fiorella ◽  
Carol Camlin ◽  
Charles Salmen ◽  
Ruth Omondi ◽  
Matthew Hickey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Lake Victoria

scholarly journals Population Control

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Alicia M.R. Donner
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Fertility Rate ◽  
Growing Population

The planet’s swiftly growing population coupled with the lack of food security and the degradation of natural resources has caused many demographers to worry about the ramifications of unchecked population growth while many philosophers worry about the ethical issues surrounding the methods of population control. Therefore, I intend to argue a system of encouraging a decrease in personal fertility rate via financial incentives offers a solution that is both viable and not morally reprehensible.

scholarly journals Plant diversity and nutrient substances of native edible plant: Case study in Suka Maju and Tamao Villages, Kapuas Hulu District, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulvi Purwayantie ◽  
Suryadi. U. E
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Mineral Content ◽  
Edible Plant ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
Local Plant ◽  
Nutritional Potential ◽  
Sampling Survey

Abstract. Purwayantie S, Suryadi UE. 2020. Plant diversity and nutrient substances of native edible plant: Case study in Suka Maju and Tamao Villages, Kapuas Hulu District, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21: 842-852. The existence of plant diversity which is wild, indigenous and edibles, needs to be preserved. The research locations in Suka Maju and Tamao Village, Kapuas Hulu District, West Kalimantan, Indonesia were chosen based on population density. The purpose of this study was to determine the plant diversity and nutritional potential from both of regions. The study method used sampling survey and the data were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that from a total of 110 plants, the three local plant names were subjected to one species and nine species were found in both locations. So that from 98 plants consisting of 44 fruits (14 of table fruits and 30 fruits of suka-suka), 30 vegetables and mushrooms, 14 seasonings, 7 nuts, 3 cereals, and tuber. The discovery of rare genera reported from West Kalimantan, they are Hydnocarpus sp, Hodgsonia sp, and Hypoxylon spp. The highest proximate content of carbohydrate is from joluk kusuk seeds (C. lacryma jobil), fats from kepayang seeds (P. edule) and dangkuk seeds (Hydnocarpus sp), protein from sengkubak leaves (A. papuana), ash from keranji (Hypoxylon spp) and dangkuk. The highest Fe and Zn mineral content were found from sengkuang fruit (D. dao) and tepus leaves (E. foetidum), respectively. The results of this survey became an initial recommendation in the development of local wisdom for local food security.

scholarly journals Metabolic, Bioproductive and Reproductive Effects of Aquatic Exposure to Cadmium in Dish- A Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bogdan GEORGESCU ◽  
Daniel MIERLITA ◽  
Danut STRUTI ◽  
Hermina KISS ◽  
Anca BOUARU
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Aquatic Environment ◽  
Reproductive Effects ◽  
Human Food Chain ◽  
Growth Development ◽  
Cd Exposure

Cadmium (Cd) exposure in fish is the result of aquatic pollution with heavy metals, which is mainly caused byanthropic interventions. Rarely, Cd mobilization from natural resources takes place. Bioaccumulation in tissues and organs is a property of this heavy metal, to generate various pathological effects and major risks due to bio-propagation within the human food chain. Wehereby reviewed the main circumstances and levels of exposure to Cd in the aquatic environment, and effects on growth, development and reproduction induced by its bioaccumulation in fish, as well as the possible ramifications for food security in humans. 

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