This literature review seeks to examine the evidence for the association between urban agriculture (UA) and food security, dietary diversity, and nutritional status and clarify the evidence base for its effectiveness at ameliorating some food security challenges faced by urban residents.
Moreover, we did not assess additional reasons for malnutrition and anaemia, such as restricted access to micro-nutrients, agricultural and dietary practices, food security, or social, political, and economic determinants, which might have biased our results.
To improve the evidence base, there is a need to develop indicators of outcomes that are not being fully measured, including dietary quality and food security, women's empowerment, health environments, and food environments.
The focus of education on food differs from one country to another due to differences in issues of health, food security, and dietary heritage, including local foods and communal integrity because food has a connection with many aspects of life (McMichael [2000]).
We find that geographic variation in supermarket proximity does not account for most of the variation of a household's choice of a primary food retailer and does not account for much of the high-level of variation across households in food security and dietary quality.
Cattle play a unique role in biology, serving as models for basic studies of metabolism, reproduction, and disease, as well as providing critical sources of human dietary protein and economic security (Bovine Genome Sequencing Initiative http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/Sequencing/SeqProposals/BovineSEQ.pdf).gov/Pages/Research/Sequencing/SeqProposals/BovineSEQ.pdf
Methodology: Recommendations: 1. Accurate baseline data, including on household food security and dietary consumption, are needed.
It is believed that both agricultural biodiversity and seasonal rainfall influences household food security and dietary intake.
This, in turn, may be relevant for programs aiming to improve food security and dietary quality in diabetic patients.
Secondary outcomes are academic achievement (literacy, numeracy, self-reported grades), sense of belonging at school, psychosocial function, dietary habits, and food security.
