Municipal policies aiming to improve equity in food access and health often rely on the assumption that neighborhoods with limited healthy food availability and high levels of diet-related illness should be the subject of targeted policy-driven change.
22 However, other factors, such as anorexia, changes in food preferences, lack of access to protein-rich foods, and cultural patterns of eating a light dinner, may also be involved in this low estimated protein intake.
"All aspects of food security are potentially affected by climate change, including food access, utilisation and price stability," it says.
Transitory food insecurity is a temporary lack of adequate food access for a household, arising from adverse changes in food prices, food production or household incomes.
Changes in food availability and changes in consumption patterns are likely to affect consumption and access to maize flour and corn meal.
"But if you are looking for what you hope will change obesity, healthy food access is probably just wishful thinking".
We focus on small food stores and a low-income population, where sensitivity to price changes are greater and where food access research is needed most [ 23, 24].
Rahul Bhargava, a research specialist from MIT, could change that, however, as he's carving crops to raise awareness about food access in a collaborative project with the Somerville Food Security Coalition.
The fundamental linkage of diurnal changes to the light cycle is evident for photosynthetic organisms, but day night cycles also determine the timing for food access in animals, and associated activities entrain susceptibility to environmental hazards and predation.
