The objectives of this Technical Paper are to highlight the contribution that inland and
coastal small-scale fisheries can make to poverty alleviation and food security and to make …

Household food insecurity (HFI) is a recognized underlying determinant of child
undernutrition, but evidence of associations between HFI and child undernutrition is mixed …

Introduction In connection to food insecurity, adaptation of new techniques or alteration of
regular behavior is executed that translates to coping strategies. This paper has used data …

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a
socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong-known in …

Background Millions of people in Bangladesh are at risk of chronic arsenic toxicity from
drinking contaminated groundwater, but little is known about diet as an additional source of …

Whereas a large number of studies have been devoted to analyzing consumer demand for
dietary quantity, much less attention has been paid to the demand for dietary quality. To …

High death tolls from recent earthquakes show that seismic risk remains high globally. While
there has been much focus on seismic hazard, large uncertainties associated with exposure …

This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in
the post-Cold War era. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of …

2.0 General 7 2.1 Global climate change 7 2.1. 1 Global temperature change 8 2.1. 2
Change in precipitation and atmospheric moisture 10 2.2 Climate change in the Himalayan …