Food waste is currently acknowledged as a major societal challenge, including the food waste at the household level estimated to be responsible for the wastage of one third of the food produced for human consumption. Hence, tackling household food waste (HFW) is gaining a momentum in societal...

Women need opportunity not sympathy - they want freedom to change the face of health & nutrition condition in developing countries. Women based Self-Help-Groups (SHGs) in south Asia; India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal etc. are actively participating in development arena especially in health &...

This study provides an alternative explanation for the unusual apparent decline in food consumption in rural China after 2000. We find that it is mainly attributable to significant measurement errors in the Chinese Rural Household Survey and the calculation of per capita food consumption. In a...