A Capabilities Approach in Addressing Nutrition and Food Security: Women and the agri-business sector in Senegal

Risks and Threats to Russia’s Food Security: the Current Situa-tion and Tools for Remedying it

International Journal of Engineering & Technology ◽

10.14419/ijet.v7i4.38.24591 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (4.38) ◽

pp. 402

Author(s):

E. G. Reshetnikova ◽

N. V. Reshetnikova ◽

V. D. Iosipenko

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Import Substitution ◽

Current Level ◽

Government Support ◽

Business Sector ◽

Key Factors ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Social Risks ◽

Food Complex

This paper provides a rationale for the need to enhance the system of institutions concerned with ensuring food security in a climate of implementation of a strategy of import substitution. The authors examine a set of key factors that can affect the sustainable development of Russia’s agri-food complex and give rise to threats and risks to the nation’s food security. The paper provides an assessment of the current level of the nation’s physical and economic accessibility of food, traces the role of the small agri-business sector, and analyzes the factor of interregional trading barriers in ensuring food security. The authors demonstrate the advisability of cultivating multiformat food retail and developing various forms of food wholesale. The paper provides a rationale for the need to implement a program of internal food assistance to help overcome social risks to food security and stresses the importance of government support for the participation of small retail and agri-business formats in it.

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Food Security Surveillance in the Palestinian Territories

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x00009389 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 17 (S2) ◽

pp. S20-S21

Author(s):

Gregg Greenough ◽

Ziad Abdeen ◽

Bdour Dandies ◽

Radwan Qasrawi

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Palestinian Territories ◽

Security Surveillance

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Averting robo-bees: why free-flying robotic bees are a bad idea

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences ◽

10.1042/etls20190063 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (6) ◽

pp. 723-729

Author(s):

Roslyn Gleadow ◽

Jim Hanan ◽

Alan Dorin

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Computer Simulation ◽

Food Security ◽

European Countries ◽

Plant Interactions ◽

Plant Insect Interactions ◽

Native Habitat ◽

Insect Pollinators ◽

Insect Interactions

Food security and the sustainability of native ecosystems depends on plant-insect interactions in countless ways. Recently reported rapid and immense declines in insect numbers due to climate change, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the introduction of agricultural monocultures, and the destruction of insect native habitat, are all potential contributors to this grave situation. Some researchers are working towards a future where natural insect pollinators might be replaced with free-flying robotic bees, an ecologically problematic proposal. We argue instead that creating environments that are friendly to bees and exploring the use of other species for pollination and bio-control, particularly in non-European countries, are more ecologically sound approaches. The computer simulation of insect-plant interactions is a far more measured application of technology that may assist in managing, or averting, ‘Insect Armageddon' from both practical and ethical viewpoints.

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