Regional Food Security Experience: Lessons Learnt from India and Timor Leste Food Security in Bangladesh 2 Food Security Status and Challenges Food security situation in Bangladesh has improved, especially on the availability side4, and further improvements on access and utilisation, to be sustainable and large-scale, needs renewed efforts from the government, civil society (including media) and the development partners. Records say in 70s’, 70% people were under the food consumption poverty
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Case Study Introduction The pseudonym name of the interviewee is named Luna Reyes. Her age is 62 and she lives in the borderline of Pasadena and Altadena in California. The interviewee is African American and Latina. She retired early from administration job because of a past health issue. She has two kids one daughter and one son. Enjoys walking around the rose bowl with her daughter. Discussion Luna Reyes had an unknown medical emergency that had no symptoms. She had severe chest pain that caused
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Long Range Planning 43 (2010) 308e325 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Building Social Business Models: Lessons from the Grameen Experience Muhammad Yunus, Bertrand Moingeon and Laurence Lehmann-Ortega Grameen bank, founded in 1976, has both pioneered the development of micro-finance, and created nearly 30 businesses designed to alleviate poverty. The article traces the gradual development of Grameen’s expertise in formulating social business models, which require new value propositions, value
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flamed-broiled fast food restaurant hands down. Simply put, Burger King's core competency means that they are more competent than their competitors when it comes to producing that type of goods and services. In addition, Burger King stands firm on its core competency of being the best at what it does when it comes to producing hamburgers and flame-broiled fast food. As a result of this strategetic move, it has positioned itself in becoming one of the markets leaders in the fast food restaurant industry
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even possible for such a company survive and thrive; or will it have to shut down its business? McDonald’s fast food has for a long time been considered unhealthy by the public. In recent years, the health conscious trends have become increasingly popular. Moreover, many scientific studies and findings have surfaced and successfully confirmed that children’s increasing intake of fast food, which often contains high sodium content, sugars, saturated fats, and calories, for a long period of time would
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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION Obesity, diet, and poverty: trends in the Russian transition to market economy L Jahns1, A Baturin2 and BM Popkin1* 1Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; and 2Institute of Nutrition, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia Objective: To examine trends in macronutrient intake, overweight, and obesity. Design: Cross-sectional samplesFcollected nine times between 1992 and 2000Ffrom the Russian Longitudinal
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in food industry essay Table of contents: 1. Introduction 2. The major concern of food industry 3. Does healthy food competition exist? 4. Conclusion “One of the key questions from our customers is “can you follow our growth?”. Fabienne Saadane-Oaks Introduction: Food is an integral part of the human’s life. Men cannot live without consuming nutrients. From the very beginning of the existence of humanity food has been like petrol for human and animal beings. Food is what
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Galland presented a paper to the (ACoG) American College of Gastroenterology which demonstrated that in over half of the participants in his study had been misdiagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome. The study consisted of two hundred patients with complaints of chronic diarrhea, recurrent constipation and abdominal pain and bloating. Fully half of the study patients actually had Giardia parasite infections. Since that time, not much has changed according to Dr. Galland in his book, Four Pillars of
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As the number of overweight and obese children drastically increases, new arguments are forming as to where the responsibility falls. Several states have begun developing laws that are including poor nutritional and lifestyle choices by parents in the category of neglect and abuse. As new studies and research pour in showing that obesity has a direct relation to multiple severe health issues, it has become increasingly common knowledge. With this era being deemed the “technology age”, finding this
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children Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems. Physicians and researchers did numerous studies on children’s habits and lifestyles as an important part of society. Nowadays, children face big problems with obesity. As a result, researchers have learned that healthy habits could have a profound impact on the future of every child and get a better
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