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The Anthropology of Food and Eating

Sidney W. Mintz, Christine M. Du Bois • Annual Review of Anthropology (2002)

▪ Abstract The study of food and eating has a long history in anthropology, beginning in the nineteenth century with Garrick Mallery and William Robertson Smith. This review notes landmark studies prior to the 1980s, sketching the history o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.032702.131011

Household food security, food hygiene practices and their interaction on self-reported health among pregnant women in the Bono region of Ghana: a population-based cluster survey

Dominic Doglikuu Be-Ikuu, Prudence Portia Mwini Nyaledzigbor, Alice Ayawine, Ebenezer Jones Amoah • BMC Public Health (2025)

Abstract Background Food security and food hygiene practices can negatively influence health. Poor food hygiene and food insecurity risk poor health. Studies have investigated the direct associations of food security and food hygiene practi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-25398-x

Essential Oils from Artemisia herba alba Asso., Maticaria Recutita L., and Dittrichia Viscosa L. (Asteraceae): A Promising Source of Eco-Friendly Agents to Control Callosobruchus maculatus Fab. Warehouse Pest

Allali Aimad, Mohammed Bourhia, Hadin Hana, Rezouki Sanae et al. • Journal of Chemistry (2022)

Callosobruchus maculatus (Fab.) (C. maculatus) is one of the major pests of legume seeds in storage causing significant damage, leading to food insecurity and low income for farmers. This work was planned to develop eco-friendly agents from...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2022/2373460

Dietary diversity among Sundarbans forest-dependent communities: Prevalence, determinants, and livelihood implications.

Md Tanvir Hossain, Tunvir Ahamed Shohel, Md Nasif Ahsan, Md Nazrul Islam • PLoS ONE (2026)

The resources of the Sundarbans mangrove forest have provided livelihoods for communities in Bangladesh and India that depend on it. However, the role of the Sundarbans in ensuring the household dietary diversity of Sundarbans mangrove fore...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0342800

Early childhood household instability, adolescent structural neural network architecture, and young adulthood depression: A 21-year longitudinal study

Felicia A. Hardi, Leigh G. Goetschius, Scott Tillem, Vonnie McLoyd et al. • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2023)

Unstable and unpredictable environments are linked to risk for psychopathology, but the underlying neural mechanisms that explain how instability relate to subsequent mental health concerns remain unclear. In particular, few studies have fo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101253

The impact of assistance on poverty and food security in a fragile and protracted-crisis context: the case of West Bank and Gaza Strip

Donato Romano, Gianluca Stefani, Benedetto Rocchi, Ciro Fiorillo • Bio-based and Applied Economics (2020)

This paper assesses the impact of assistance on the wellbeing of Palestinian households. The impact evaluation analysis uses a difference-in-difference approach for the treatment of sample selection bias. The paper uses data from the 2013 a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.13128/bae-8145

The NWRD Dataset: An Open-Source Annotated Segmentation Dataset of Diseased Wheat Crop

Hirra Anwar, Saad Ullah Khan, Muhammad Mohsin Ghaffar, Muhammad Fayyaz et al. • Sensors (2023)

Wheat stripe rust disease (WRD) is extremely detrimental to wheat crop health, and it severely affects the crop yield, increasing the risk of food insecurity. Manual inspection by trained personnel is carried out to inspect the disease spre...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s23156942

On the use of aspect-based sentiment analysis of Twitter data to explore the experiences of African Americans during COVID-19

Meghna Chaudhary, Kristin Kosyluk, Sylvia Thomas, Tempestt Neal • Scientific Reports (2023)

Abstract According to data from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as of June 2020, a significant number of African Americans had been infected with the coronavirus disease, experiencing disproportionately higher death rate...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-37592-1