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Crowdsourcing food security: introducing food choice derivatives for sustainability
Global food supply chains are unprepared for the increasing number and severity of the expected environmental, social and economic shocks in the...
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Food choice responses to changes in the price of a staple crop: a discrete choice experiment of maize in rural Malawi
Price and affordability are important drivers of food choice, particularly for rural smallholder farming households in Malawi, experiencing extreme...
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Local tastes and global flavors: food choice in the context of the nutrition transition in South India
This study aimed to quantify familiarity with and consumption of local, national, and global foods among adults in a newly globalizing district in...
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A gut-derived hormone suppresses sugar appetite and regulates food choice in Drosophila
Animals must adapt their dietary choices to meet their nutritional needs. How these needs are detected and translated into nutrient-specific...
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Food choice: a response to landless food concept
The landless food concept’s initial goal was to ensure food security for future generations in view of limited land resources. One of the ideas, in...
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Context-effect bias in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.): exploring decoy influences in a value-based food choice task
Decision making is known to be liable to several context effects. In particular, adding a seemingly irrelevant alternative (decoy) to a set of...
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Coeffects of diet and neonicotinoid exposure on honeybee mobility and food choice
Malnutrition and pesticide exposure are severe factors contributing to the current losses of honeybee colonies. As these stressors often occur...
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An operant social self-administration and choice model in mice
Little is known about how social factors contribute to neurobiology or neuropsychiatric disorders. The use of mice allows one to probe the...
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Consumer identity but not food availability affects carabid diet in cereal crops
Understanding trophic interactions in agroecosystems is crucial for harnessing ecosystem services such as pest control, thus enabling a reduction in...
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Paradoxical choice and the reinforcing value of information
Signals that reduce uncertainty can be valuable because well-informed decision-makers can better align their preferences to opportunities. However,...
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Insects as Human Food
With the global population estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050, food demands are going to be so high that potential and nutritive choice of...
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Mating alters the food choices of adult ladybird beetle (Propylea dissecta mulsant)
Mating alters nutritional and energetic needs which result in behavioural and physiological changes related to reproduction. But little is known as...
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Nanotechnology in Food Crop Production and Food Processing Industry
The creation of smart packaging, nanosensors, nano pesticides, and nano fertilisers, in particular, has been made possible by the tremendous...
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Method for selecting certification standards for food safety
Food safety is a global public health issue and also a crucial aspect of food security. For a food manufacturing company, food safety plays an...
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Agriculture and Food Resources
Food provides nutrients and energy necessary for metabolism and bodily functions. Primitive man obtained food from natural forests, rich in diverse...
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Food preferences and nutrient composition in captive Southern brown howler monkeys, Alouatta guariba clamitans
Studies of food preferences in captive primates have so far mainly been restricted to frugivorous species. It was therefore the aim of the present...
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Revisiting Food for Growth: Lessons from a Food Systems Studio
Over the past two decades, food has become a routine topic explored in the field of planning, with planning courses more regularly incorporating food...
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Food vouchers and dietary diversity: evidence from social protection reform in Indonesia
In-kind food transfers are widely used in many develo** countries to address food insecurity, yet undernutrition remains a key problem. In this...
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The trauma of no-choice: Wild food ethnobotany in Yaghnobi and Tajik villages, Varzob Valley, Tajikistan
Due to global change and the migration crisis both needing rapid attention, there has been growing debate about the drivers of change in the diet of...
