... Abstract The last 10 years have witnessed a surge in international focus on the long-term health and socioeconomic impacts of malnutrition. Here, we employ a rights consistent approach to evaluate the nutritional welfare of children under 5 years in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia...

..., education, welfare, and other regulatory affairs, form a united front to empower women and improve food and nutrition security, will the burdens of malnutrition be seen to be easily eradicated. Abstract This research was carried out to investigate the extent to which gender marginalization or bias...

... discrimination limit people's access to basic rights and services. To address this crisis, Welthungerhilfe India, working in remote villages of the most backward states in India, has shifted from a welfare-based approach to a rights-based approach. The Fight Hunger First Initiative, started by Welthungerhilfe...

... been replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals that emphasise prevention and broad multi-sectorial efforts to alleviate poverty and improve health and welfare. Those goals may potentially provide direction and strengthen the commitment in response to the huge threats to global child health that war...

... Abstract Although still a powerful economy, Germany faces rising income inequality and food insecurity. Quantitative data show that nutritional poverty in Germany has become a fact, especially for social welfare recipients. This contribution gives an overview and discusses the limits of results...

... of their agricultural policy decisions. The food sovereignty of other countries should be respected. Policies should enable self-supply of the population with healthy food and should promote the protection of resources, the climate, biodiversity and animal welfare. Strengthening rural structures, local economies, labor...

... violence, was viewed as a widespread international public health and human rights issue. Mental health and psychosocial support is recognized as a core public health, social welfare and protection area in complex emergencies, including armed conflicts. Despite the acknowledged scale of the problem, little...

... the course of utility, seeking the steepest benefit-to-risk ratios, weighted toward safety and child welfare, the divergent nature of the considerations should be brought into convergence for the sake of continuing innovation. When you reach the fork in the road, take it. G.T. Keusch [ 1 ] We...

... Abstract Community-based approaches have been the mainstay of interventions to address the problem of child malnutrition in developing societies. Many programs have been in operation in several countries for decades and originated largely as social welfare, food security and poverty eradication...

... Abstract Health is one of the most important contributors to animal welfare, productivity and profitability in pig production today. For the past 30 years, pig breeders have focused on genetic improvement of lean growth, feed efficiency, meat quality and reproduction. However, in recent years...

... Abstract Menopause and reproductive senescence can be more fully understood by examining these phenomenawhere they occur in nonhuman mammals, as well as humans, and especially by comparisons among primates.In addition to concerns about human health and welfare, successful programs for wildlife...

.... Related to this knowledge, the consumer’swell-being is based on indulgence and the certainty that by purchasing, eating and enjoyingorganic food, one has contributed to a better future and an improved environment. Theseeffects with their social implications along with improved animal welfare may...