Sentence examples for food security measures from inspiring English sources

India, its government facing a general election next year, spearheaded an effort to prevent emerging markets from facing challenges at the WTO over subsidies granted to farmers under the aegis of "food security" measures.

These preliminary results support use of newly developed hunger-coping scales in a very low-income population and can compliment traditional food security measures to inform hunger prevention policy and programming.

Historically, food, farm and rural development legislation including national nutrition programs and global food security measures have required a national bipartisan support base.

Our program allows facile handling of enormous quantities of data that arise from food alerts and recalls in line with the needs of countries that are adopting and implementing food security measures.

For income and food security measures of SEP, which were available for all age groups, our final sample size was 4739 for BPA and 3953 for PFCs, after excluding those with missing data for the variables of interest (see Additional file 2).

We did see associations in the hypothesized direction between BPA and the food security measures; there was a particularly strong signal with very low food security compared to low and marginal food security, and an association of slightly lower magnitude in those who received emergency food.

Amid fears about Kiribati's survival, the government has been forced to consider radical engineering schemes to mitigate a shrinking land mass, while buying farmland in Fiji as a "food security" measure.

Passing the food security measure would be a major victory for the Congress Party because it would help shore up support in crucial constituencies before parliamentary elections in 2014, and would offset some of the damage done by corruption scandals and a faltering economy.

In other words, the food security measure provides independent, more specific information on this dimension of welfare than the measure that can be inferred from using only income data (Bickel et al. 2000).

Then, the effect of household's adaptation in response to climate change on a given outcome (outcome in this study is food security measured in food calorie intake) (Y) is specified as: {tau}_i={Y}_ileft {D}_i=1right)hbox {Y}_ileft {D}_i=0right) (2).

CIA (also known as Confoundedness Assumption) states given a set of observable covariates (X) which are not affected by treatment (in our case, adaptation), potential outcomes (food security measured by food calorie intake) are independent of treatment assignment (independent of how adaptation decision is made by the household).