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Introduction: Cultivating the Migration-Food Security Nexus
Jonathan Crush,Mary Caesar +1 more
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This article is published in International Migration.The article was published on 2017-08-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nexus (standard) & Food security.read more
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Food and Nutrition Security in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Unique Challenges and Niche Opportunities
TL;DR: The mountain people of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) face large challenges in food and nutrition security as discussed by the authors, and although progress has been made in calorie intake, malnutrition remains a serious challenge (well-established).
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Immigration/migration and healthy publics: the threat of food insecurity
Megan A. Carney,Keegan C. Krause +1 more
TL;DR: This paper analyzed local experiences of food insecurity in restrictive immigration policy contexts through an intersectional lens and examined the possibilities for engaged research oriented toward generating healthy publics and addressing food insecurity across disparate geographical and political settings and amid structural and social constraints.
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What do we really know? Metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition
TL;DR: In this article, the authors critically review the three most common approaches of assessing chronic food insecurity and undernutrition: (i) the FAO indicator of undernourishment, (ii) household food consumption surveys, and (iii) childhood anthropometrics.
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The impact of remittances on food insecurity: Evidence from Mexico
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used ordered probit regressions with instrumental variables to assess the potentially distinct impacts of international and internal remittances on food insecurity of households in rural Mexico.
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What Are We Assessing When We Measure Food Security? A Compendium and Review of Current Metrics
TL;DR: A review of the current landscape of measurement tools available for assessing food security can be found in this paper, where the authors present a compendium and review of food security assessment tools in which they review issues of terminology, measurement, and validation.
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Remittances, household expenditure and investment in Guatemala
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a large household data set from Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittance (from the United States) affects the marginal spending behavior of households on various consumption and investment goods.
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A Systematic Review of the Relationship between Acculturation and Diet among Latinos in the United States: Implications for Future Research
TL;DR: Findings suggest a differential influence of acculturation on diet, requiring greater specificity in dietary interventions by accULTuration status, which is an important determinant of obesity and numerous chronic health conditions.
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Remittances, Household Expenditure and Investment in Guatemala
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a large household data set from Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittance (from the United States) affects the marginal spending behavior of households on various consumption and investment goods.
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The healthy immigrant effect: Patterns and evidence from four countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the role of selectivity as a potential explanation for the existence of the healthy immigrant effect across source and destination countries using a set of consistently defined measures of health, and find that selectivity plays an important role in the observed better health of migrants vis a vis those who stay behind in their country of origin.