Search for dissertations about: "food environment"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 366 swedish dissertations containing the words food environment.
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1. Social-ecological approaches for assessment of healthy diets from sustainable food systems
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2. Dagligvarudistributionens strukturomvandling : Drivkrafter och konsekvenser för städers utformning och miljö
Abstract : The purpose of this study is to describe and analyse the dramatic structural changes in the wholesaling and retailing of food and groceries in towns and cities in Sweden, with emphasis on the period after the Second World War. Besides a general analysis based on national data, the town of Linköping is used to illustrate the spatial dimension in the development of food distribution at the micro level. READ MORE
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3. On Folates in Yeasts -Exploring Yeasts as Vehicles for Biofortification of Folates in Food
Abstract : High intake of the B vitamin folate during pregnancy is known to decrease the risk for development of neural tube defects. In addition, a good folate status may prevent the progression of several diseases such as megaloblastic anaemia, cardiovascular disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. READ MORE
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4. Food for Naught : The politics of food in agricultural modernization for African smallholder food security
Abstract : Why is there hunger in sub-Saharan Africa? What forces drive the global food system? What is the global food system? To approach these questions, this study investigates power and politics in food, in its production and in its organization. Proceeding from a critical realist approach, focus of this study is on the challenge of African smallholder food insecurity and how it is presented as part of a dominant discourse of agricultural modernization. READ MORE
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5. Food Webs, Models and Species Extinctions in a Stochastic Environment
Abstract : In light of the current global mass extinction of species, ecologists are facing great challenges. In order to reverse the path towards additional extinctions early warning systems to guide management actions need to be developed. READ MORE