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A team of researchers has devised a method using smartphones in order to measure food consumption an approach that also offers new ways to predict physical well-being. We ve harnessed the expanding presence of mobile and smartphones around the globe to measure food consumption over time with precision and with the potential to capture seasonal shifts in diet and food consumption patterns, explains Andrew Reid Bell, an assistant professor in New York University s Department of Environmental Studies and an author of the paper, which appears in the journal
Environmental Research Letters.
Food consumption has traditionally been measured by questionnaires that require respondents to recall what they ate over the previous 24 hours, to keep detailed consumption records over a three-to-four-day period, or to indicate their typical consumption patterns over one-week to one-month periods. Because these methods ask for participants to report behaviors over extended periods of t
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Our food Systems Are Broken. We Are In Need Of Urgent Change
Countries across the world are suffering from a severe lack of access to food. Our food systems are broken. WHO says this will only worsen as a result of the pandemic at hand
A small island country located in the South Pacific Ocean, Vanuatu was jolted by Cyclone Harold, a category 5 storm on April 10, 2020. Once a lush landscape, Vanuatu stands stark and barren in the aftermath of the cyclone. A small country with a population of less than 300,000 mainly relying on tourism and agricultural exports for income -Vanuatu was left paralysed with the double attack of the COVID-19 lockdown along with the cyclone. International aid has been impossible to reach, and supplies of basics such as food, water and shelter stand unavailable. Now, only a few months later, Cyclone Yasa, the strongest tropical cyclone to ever hit the South Pacific has struck again.
The technology dilemma that low-income countries confront
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Recent patterns of technological change make it harder for poor countries to catch up with the rich
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Economic development relies on the creation of more productive jobs for an ever-rising share of the workforce. Once, it was industrialization that enabled poor countries to embark on this transformation. Factory work may not have been glorious, but it enabled farmers to become blue-collar workers, transforming the economy and society as a result.
To the point - Myanmar Coup: Death Knell for Democracy?
Protest movement is taking off
Protesters in Myanmar have been photographed holding up the three-finger salute, which has become a well-known symbol of resistance for the pro-democracy movement in neighboring Thailand.
They carry signs condemning military leader General Min Aung Hlaing, and shout: We do not want a military dictatorship! We want democracy!
Until now, the military has responded to protesters with relative restraint compared with Myanmar s last coup in 1988, or in 2007, when the Tatmadaw defeated the so-called saffron revolution led by Buddhist monks. The military crackdown on both of these protest movements ended up costing many lives.
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