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Salmon, Laura. "Contribution of foods to nutrient intakes of grades 4-6 students participating in Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project 1994, 1998 and 2002." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=80872.
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This study assessed the diets of participants in the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project (KSDPP). Data were gathered from three cross-sectional surveys of students in grades four to six in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake. Single 24-hour recall interviews were conducted in 2002 (n = 151), 1998 (n = 153) and 1994 (n = 164). Mean number of servings of Vegetables and Fruits (3.6 per day), Milk Products (1.6 per day), and Meat and Alternatives (1.5 per day) were found to be below ranges recommended by Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating. Correspondingly, mean intakes of fibre, calcium and vitamin D were found to be below Adequate Intake references. Positive changes detected include a decrease in soda consumption and a shift toward whole grains. Results indicate that improved nutrient intakes will require closer adherence to the principles of Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating. KSDPP intervention staff are using results as a basis for intervention.
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Whiting, Erin Feinauer. "Understanding reservation hunger food acquisition and food security among the northern Cheyenne /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4444.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (May 2, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Johnsson, Mick. "Food and culture among Bolivian Aymara symbolic expressions of social relations /." Uppsala : Stockholm, Sweden : [Uppsala University] ; Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18245908.html.
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Hillou, Farah. "Predictors of excess weight gain among children participating in the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112635.
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The aim of this study was to determine the predictors of excess weight gain among children participating in the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project (KSDPP). Study objectives were addressed in a secondary analysis of data collected from 1994 to 2004. Mean BMI percentiles and relative weight values increased over time in repeat cross-sectional analyses. Participants followed longitudinally were split into two groups: (1) children gaining weight at ≤ the median value of weight for their age, sex and height (n=86); (2) children gaining > the median value (n=177). Therefore, two-thirds of the participants were gaining weight greater than the norm. Among boys only, those in the higher weight group were heavier for their age, sex and height at the start of their follow-up period. No significant differences were observed in reported dietary intake, physical activity levels or screen time between children in the two weight gain groups.
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Gonzague, Bernadette de. "Traditional and market food use among adults in two Ojibwe communities." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27305.
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Food frequency questionnaires and twenty-four hour recalls were conducted with a random sample of 104 Ojibwe adults in Mille Lacs, Minnesota and Lac Courte Oreilles, Wisconsin to assess traditional and market food use. Sociocultural questionnaires were used to assess the cultural significance of traditional food. The importance of the traditional food system was evident, with at least 50% of people engaging in hunting and fishing practices. Traditional food was among the top ten food sources of protein, zinc, iron and folate. The cultural significance of traditional food was apparent. Obesity is prevalent, with almost 50% of the population studied over the 85$ rm sp{th}$ percentile for Body Mass Index (BMI). Nutrient densities were lower than those in the NHANES III sample, in particular for calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C, and folate. Mean intakes of fat, saturated fat, and sucrose exceeded American Heart Association and World Health Organization recommendations. Areas of focus for education and future research needs are suggested in order to reduce risks for nutrition-related chronic disease such as diabetes and heart disease.
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Downs, Shauna Mae. "Reducing trans fat in the Indian food supply: a food systems approach." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11646.
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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death in India. A serious dietary risk factor for NCDs is the consumption of industrially-produced trans fat. The overall aim of this thesis was to examine the potential use of policy to improve the quality of fats that are available, affordable and acceptable in India using consumption-oriented food supply chain analysis. India will likely face significant challenges to reducing trans fat in its food supply given the perceived lack of trans fat awareness, the large unorganised manufacturing and retail sectors and a need for suitable alternative products that are both acceptable to consumers and affordable. Twenty-four policy solutions were identified to overcome these supply chain problems. Increasing the role of the private sector to improve links among producers, processors and retailers was identified as being key in terms of improving the availability of healthier oils and streamlining the fats supply chain in India. Improving policy coherence among upstream determinants of the quality of the food supply such as agricultural production and downstream consumer-facing policies such as trans fat limits and labelling is required to ensure that product reformulation is done in a way that maximises health gains.
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Rai, Pronoy. "The Indian State and the Micropolitics of Food Entitlements." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1368004369.
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Rani, Raj. "Modelling plankton dynamics in the east coast of India." Thesis, IIT Delhi, 2015. http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/12345678/6668.
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Siegel, Benjamin Robert. "Independent India of Plenty: Food, Hunger, and Nation-Building in Modern India." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11598.
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This dissertation situates debates over food procurement, provision, and hunger as the key economic and social contestations structuring the late colonial and postcolonial Indian state. It juxtaposes the visions of national statesmen against those advanced by party organizers, scientists, housewives, journalists, and international development workers and diplomats. Examining their promises and plans - and the global contexts in which they were made - this project demonstrates how India's "food question" mediated fundamental arguments over citizenship, governance, and the proper relationship between individuals, groups, and the state.History
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Akash, Udayakumar, Skaria Skaria, and Akhilesan Adithyan Muttathara. "Unique food traditions in India and Ukraine." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2019. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/77249.
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Food traditions all over the world are different. It differs according
to religion, specific culture, climate for which different spices and certain
crops are produced only in a specific place. Since India and Ukraine both
differ in season, climate, crops and mainly the different methods of cuisine.
The aim of the article is to give the comparison between food traditions in
India and Ukraine. So as to thoroughly compare the food traditions
between the two countries, each comparison will be taken at each step.
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Gupta, Rachita. "Study of food security impediments in India." Thesis, IIT Delhi, 2019. http://eprint.iitd.ac.in:80//handle/2074/8124.
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Perry, William. "Indigenous food sovereignty: growing and surviving as Indians." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119696.
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This thesis explores the emerging political concept of Indigenous Food Sovereignty. In brief, the concept of Indigenous Food Sovereignty (IFS) makes the claim that Indigenous communities have the right to preserve and practice their cultural traditions surrounding the production of food. Communities should have access to enough land in order to practice their traditions to the point of self-sufficiency. This goal involves limiting the actions of Indigenous individuals through promoting traditional values within Indigenous communities. IFS also seeks to limit the actions of non-Indigenous persons and nations in order to protect space reserved for Indigenous traditions. I ask the following questions throughout my research into this subject. What kind of limitations on the freedoms of Indigenous individuals does the enforcement of tradition within communities entail? In what ways does "guaranteeing enough Indigenous land" require limitations on the actions of non-Indigenous people? Finally, are the values and demands that IFS promotes justifiable within an Indigenous worldview? A liberal worldview?From the traditional Indigenous worldview, I find that IFS is justifiable. This does not occur without tension though, for the concept additionally desires to employ certain modern practices in order to help communities survive. I find that liberalism can also agree with IFS in regard to the restrictions that are demanded on Indigenous individuals; this occurs through the adoption of a "cultural compromise" surrounding the issue of land inalienability. In this compromise, Indigenous communities are given the power of alienation over their lands so they may choose to alienate or not at their will. This is intended to please both sides because Indigenous people have the freedom to alienate if they want to, but they are not forced to do so.IFS's demands against external nations, however, create the most tension between the Indigenous and liberal worldviews. Liberals largely do not support the protection of Indigenous territory when it poses unfair limitations on liberal peoples. I thus question whether the above compromise will stand here. Yet, if agreement is not found between cultures, then this leaves us with an increased chance for real-world cultural conflict in the future. In this respect, I suggest that perhaps it is better for both sides to be flexible and accept the compromise being proposed. This would go a long way to avoiding conflict and would allow for the representation of a variety of individual views which exist across both Indigenous and liberal communities.Cette thèse explore le concept émergent de «Indigenous Food Sovereignty» (IFS); Ce concept peut être traduit: «Souveraineté Alimentaire Autochtone». En bref, l'IFS affirme que les communautés autochtones ont le droit de préserver et pratiquer leurs traditions culturelles concernant la production d'aliments. Ces communautés doivent avoir accès à suffisamment de terrain dans le but de pratiquer leurs traditions jusqu'à l'autosuffisance. Cet objectif implique de limiter les libertés des membres des communautés afin de promouvoir les valeurs traditionnelles. De plus, ce concept cherche à encadrer les actions des nations non autochtones pour garantir l'espace nécessaire à la réalisation de ces pratiques traditionnelles. Je pose les questions ci-dessous pendant ma recherche: 1. Quelles sortes de limitations sur les libertés des autochtones faut-il pour appliquer le concept dans les communautés?, 2. Qu'elles sont les conséquences pour les non autochtones de l'attribution de terrain aux fins de l'IFS?, 3. Finalement, est-ce que les exigences que met en avant ce concept sont justifiables du point de vue autochtone? Du point de vue libéral?D'après la perspective autochtone, je trouve le concept justifiable. Mais, ceci n'arrive pas sans tension puisque le concept désire employer quelques pratiques modernes pour aider les communautés à survivre. Je crois aussi que la pensée libérale peut être en accord avec l'IFS à propos des restrictions pour les individus autochtones; ceci se produit grâce au «compromis culturel» concernant le point principal de l'inaliénabilité des territoires autochtones. Dans ce compromis, les communautés autochtones reçoivent le pouvoir de vendre ou non leurs territoires. Cela a pour but de plaire aux deux côtés puisque les autochtones ont le droit de vendre leurs territoires mais ne sont pas forcés de le faire.Toutefois, les exigences de l'IFS envers les nations étrangères créent le plus de tension entre la pensée libérale et la pensée indigène. Les penseurs libéraux, en général, ne supportent pas la protection des territoires autochtones quand cela implique des restrictions pour des peuples libéraux. Ainsi, je demande si le compromis ci-dessus peut supporter la pression dans ces conditions-ci. Cependant, l'importance d'une entente sur ce point est primordiale à de bonnes relations futures. À cet égard, je recommande que les libéraux et les autochtones acceptent ce compromis. Cette entente augmenterait les chances d'harmonie culturelle et permettrait la représentation à la fois des différentes positions qui existent à travers les communautés libérales et autochtones.
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Parkinson, Nancy S. "Educational attainment, food and nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitudes, nutrition behaviors, and nutrition training of Indiana school food service directors." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1319832.
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The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) was established to provide meals that would meet one-third of the daily nutritional needs of children. Administrators of NSLP understand the responsibility to address the rising increase of obesity in children today. The purpose of this study was to examine the educational attainment, food and nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitudes, nutrition behaviors and nutrition training of 411 Indiana School Food Service Directors, through the completion of a 50 itemized questionnaire. The hypothesis of this research was to show that the educational attainment of Indiana School Food Service Directors would not impact their food and nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitudes, nutrition behaviors or nutrition training.A statistical significance (p<0.036) was found when analyzing nutrition attitudes between the respondents in the 41-50 year age group and the 61-70 year age group. Results indicated the 41-50 year old group had a more positive nutrition attitude than the 61-50 year age group. Additional analysis of the questionnaire results revealed no statistical significant difference between Indiana School Food Service Directors' educational attainment and nutrition attitude, nutrition behaviors, or nutrition training.Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
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Simonin, Martine. "Manuscrit Aubin no 20 Codex mexicanus no20 (fonds mexicain de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France) manuscrit mixtèque préhispanique /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/39190595.html.
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Johnson, Tai Elizabeth. "The Shifting Nature of Food and Water on the Hopi Indian Reservation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/612155.
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On the southern escarpment of Black Mesa lie the longest continually inhabited settlements in North America. In a land where water is scarce and fierce winds move shifting dunes of sand, the Hopi people continue to dry farm fields of blue corn, irrigate terrace gardens, and tend livestock in one of the world's most biologically diverse food systems. Rooted in an intimate knowledge of local resources and ecology, Hopis produced the majority of food consumed in their communities well into the 1930s. Over the course of the twentieth century a cataclysm of social, economic, and environmental forces reshaped Hopi food and water systems, shifting the use and management of Hopi resources including labor, crops, livestock, and water. As Hopi relationships with these resources changed, so too did the production and consumption of Hopi foods. Farming, ranching, and gardening declined, as did agrobiodiversity. Food from the grocery store replaced food from the fields, contributing to rates of diabetes and obesity significantly higher than the national average. At the same time domestic and industrial development of Hopi ground and surface water transformed Hopi water systems. Today Hopi agriculturalists report declines in the water resources upon which agricultural success depends. These declines are limiting the decision and ability of Hopis to continue traditional agricultural practices. The persistent and long-term ecological observations of farmers, gardeners, and ranchers who continue to interact with these specific resources and the local environment through their agricultural practices are valuable in understanding ecological change over time, including how natural resource development and climate change are affecting traditional subsistence practices.
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Sarkar, Abhijit. "Beyond famines : wartime state, society, and politicization of food in colonial India, 1939-1945." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d9ed9566-5baa-42b0-83a7-3d1f6909cf59.
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This thesis explores the origin of one of the most engrossing concerns of the post-colonial Indian state, that is, its extensive, intricate, and expensive feeding arrangements for the civilians. It tracks the colonial origin of the post-colonial welfare state, of which state-management of food is one of the most publicized manifestations. This thesis examines the intervention of the late colonial British state in food procurement and distribution in India during the Second World War, and various forms of such intervention, such as the introduction of food rationing and food austerity laws. It argues that the war necessitated actions on the part of the colonial state to secure food supplies to a vastly expanded British Indian Army, to the foreign Allied troops stationed in India, and to the workers employed in war-industries. The thesis brings forth the constitutional and political predicaments that deprived the colonial central government's food administration of success. It further reveals how the bitter bargaining about food imports into India between the Government of India and the War Cabinet in Britain hampered the state efforts to tackle the food crisis. By discussing the religious and cultural codes vis-à-vis food consumption that influenced government food policies, this thesis has situated food in the historiography of consumption in colonial India. In addition to adopting a political approach to study food, it has also applied sociological treatment, particularly while dealing with how the wartime scarcity, and consequent austerity laws, forced people to accept novel consumption cultures. It also contributes to the historiography of 'everyday state'. Through its wartime intervention in everyday food affairs, the colonial state that had been distant and abstract in the perception of most common households, suddenly became a reality to be dealt with in everyday life within the domestic site. Thus, the macro state penetrated micro levels of existence. The colonial state now even developed elaborate food surveillance to gather intelligence about violation of food laws. This thesis unravels the responses of some of the political and religious organizations to state intervention in quotidian food consumption. Following in this vein, through a study of the political use of famine-relief in wartime Bengal, it introduces a new site to the study of communal politics in India, namely, propagation of Hindu communal politics through distribution of food by the Hindu Mahasabha party. Further, it demonstrates how the Muslim League government's failure to prevent the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 was politically used by the Mahasabha to oppose the League's emerging demand for the creation of Pakistan.
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Roche, Marion Leslie. "Traditional food, dietary diversity and nutritional status of the Aguaruna in the Peruvian Amazon." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82416.
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Aguaruna Indigenous People live along the Rio Cenepa in the Peruvian Amazon. This thesis describes the Aguaruna traditional food system (TFS) and defines its nutritional importance. Nutritional status of women and young children were assessed using anthropometry. Dietary intakes and dietary diversity were recorded using repeat 24 hour recalls. Subsequently, the relative nutrient contributions of local foods were analyzed. A market survey was conducted to compare the nutrient value and relative cost of seasonal local foods with imported products. Anthropometry suggested a healthy population, although the Agauruna had short stature. They purchased <1 % of their food, and group dietary assessments estimated adequate intakes of energy, protein, fat, iron, zinc, vitamin C and vitamin A. Higher traditional food diversity was associated with greater macronutrient, vitamin and mineral intakes (Spearman's rho = 0.29 to r = 0.60). The Aguaruna TFS provides excellent nutrition and should be promoted and protected.
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He, Yuan. "Food and shelter : village lives in India and China compared." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278016.
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This thesis examines the wellbeing of India and China’s rural-dwellers in Bihar and Gansu administrative units. It focuses on the food and shelter situation within these regions, from the standpoint of the existing status quo and ongoing trends. Moreover, it gives particular consideration to India and China’s governments’ role in the relevant wellbeing outcomes. Accordingly, this thesis argues for the importance of state capacity, and interest alignment, in driving forward development and preventing avoidable death or suffering. This provides a new angle on the dominant, Amartya Sen-inspired development models that emphasize free choice and democracy as the most immediate and preeminent development concerns. Thus, as this thesis proceeds to show, such Senian priorities increasingly lose value in contexts where weak state capacity or non-interest cannot deliver core well-being essentials. For example, populations that continue to either perish or persist with severe impairments from starvation, malnutrition and occupancy of uninhabitable dwellings are unable to exercise substantive freedoms in a manner envisioned by Sen. However, this does not mean this thesis undervalues democracy and freedom, but rather contends, alongside the most recent development sequencing literature, that strong state capacity is a prerequisite for the implementation of stable, lasting and functional democracy. Indeed, state capacity can give people the essential well-being basics to value, comprehend and utilize their freedoms in a full and non-exploited manner. Consequently, this thesis draws on a two-year fieldwork study in Bihar and Gansu’s villages and relies on 230 (215 valid) semi open-ended questionnaires, 29 stakeholder interviews, three focus group discussions and other relevant sources to bolster its argument and analysis.
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Joshi, Abhir Anil. "Impacts of Leadership on TQM in Food Industry in India." TopSCHOLAR®, 2018. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2072.
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To improve an organizations competitive edge, leadership has adopted a conventional and organized approach known as TQM to improve the quality of its products and services. Implementation of TQM varies from one organization to another. This study determined the various impacts of leadership on TQM in the food industry in India. The continuous decrement of India's economy has led organizations to hire nonskilled people who lack the basic knowledge of the process and thus do not work efficiently and thus ensuring failure of TQM. Another problem faced was the lack of a healthy management which ensures a positive environment and boosts morale of the people. This study gave an idea about the organizational culture and characteristics, the issues it faced while implementing TQM due to lack of an effective leadership, the linkage between the leadership and TQM policies. Data was collected with the help of a questionnaire survey from the people involved in the industry and thus the results from the survey were analyzed and used to answer the research questions.
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Dasgupta, Rajaram. "Nutritional planning in India." New Delhi : Navrang, 1989. http://books.google.com/books?id=jKvgAAAAMAAJ.
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Weinman, Michelle L. "Grass pickerel diet and habitat selection in Indiana rivers and streams." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1356256.
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Grass pickerel were collected in rivers and streams throughout Indiana for diet analysis. Frequency of occurrence, mean percent volume, and relative importance index were calculated for diet from all grass pickerel stomachs containing food. Grass pickerel were divided into three size classes (57-95mm, 96-150mm, >150mm) and stomach contents were divided into four groups (insects, fish, crayfish, and other). Grass pickerel in the small size class consumed mostly fish and crayfish while in the largest size class mostly crayfish were ingested. In addition, habitat selection was identified for grass pickerel. Macro and microhabitat were evaluated and described using the Qualitative Habitat Evaluation Index and visual assessment. Grass pickerel selected habitat with slow moving water and instream cover of either logs/woody debris or aquatic macrophytes.Department of Biology
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Truemper, Holly A. "Food habits and prey size-selection of yellow perch in extreme southern Lake Michigan, with emphasis on the prey : round goby." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1260485.
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Food habits for yellow perch Perca flavescens were compared using current and previous diet studies from southern Lake Michigan index sites. Yellow perch were not gape limited but size-selective in consumption of the newly established round goby Neogobius melanostomus. Ingested fish ranged from 7 to 47% of the yellow perch's total length and 2 to 53% of their gape. Currently, yellow perch diets are dominated in volume by fish/fish products (85%), which is double from previous studies. Utilization of zooplankton and insect prey items in the yellow perch diet has decreased to <1% by volume in 2002, contrasting with previous consumption of 4 to 20% and 5 to 17%, respectively, from previous studies during 1971-1993. Yellow perch are exhibiting opportunistic, generalist feeding strategy that incorporates both exotic and native prey items, allowing the population to use multiple prey items with the changing prey base in Lake Michigan.Department of Biology
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Bailey, Sara. "The making of India's 'Right to Food Act'." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/23584/.
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This thesis critically analyses the scholarly literature on the creation of human rights law in light of the author’s empirical investigation into the making of India’s ‘right to food act’. Human rights law is increasingly being used to combat poverty, but influential critics of human rights law are sceptical about the law’s capacity in this regard. Two critiques are of particular relevance to this study. The first is that human rights are minimalist i.e. they only provide for basic needs and do not address economic inequality (or, therefore, ‘relative poverty’). The second critique – which proceeds from the first – is that in contexts characterised by economic inequality, the poor are often unable to exercise their formally-accorded rights because they lack the ‘moral and material resources’ needed to do so. This thesis appraised these critiques and found that they are, in the main, valid. However, to reject human rights law on this basis is short-sighted. The construction of human rights law is a social process and it is argued in this study that there is no inherent reason why human rights law could not, in the future, develop in a manner which overcomes the problems presently associated with it. In order to gain insights into the reasons why human rights law is constructed in the way that it is, this thesis studied the social processes involved in the creation of India’s ‘Right to Food Act’. The findings shed new light on the potential and limitations of human rights. The content of the Act supports the contention that human rights are minimalist. However, an analysis of the social processes involved in its creation demonstrates that its content was not in some way ‘preordained’. It was shaped by a diversity of ideas and processes of contestation between a diversity of actors. It is conceivable that had particular circumstances been different, the Right to Food Act could have addressed at least some of the causes of economic inequality in India. This thesis therefore concludes that in order to meaningfully evaluate the potential and limitations of human rights law, further studies of the social processes involved in its creation need to be conducted.
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Simon, Kevin Patrick. "Applications of design for value to distributed solar generation in Indian food processing and irrigation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100880.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Solar panels are not installed on an off-grid farm to save on home energy bills. Those systems are installed to enable communities to do activities that they could not do before. This thesis studies the application of design for value to distributed solar energy systems by considering how the energy system will enable new income generating activities. The work here couples business and energy models to optimize with value as an objective function. The interaction between energy production and value creation is complex, so multi-objective optimization is used as a tool to explore the design space and analyze the feasibility of such projects. This methodology is practiced in two case studies. One case study considers the design of a solar irrigation pump that is specifically designed for marginal-holding farmers in east India. The other case study analyzes the feasibility of small-scale concentrated solar powered (p-CSP) food processing with an organic Rankine cycle (ORC). In both cases, preliminary economic feasibility is established with the use of analysis by optimization and design for value. It was found that a solar pump could be produced which costs less than 500 USD cap-ex and meets 99% of a marginal-holding farmer's water demand. The solar food processing analysis showed that a system could be produced which costs 29,000 USD with a 15-year NPV of 33,400 USD at a discount rate of 18%. The programmatic tools that are used to explore this design space include genetic algorithms, pattern search, adaptive weighted sums, and Pareto fronts.
by Kevin Patrick Simon.
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Epstein, Jessica. "Competitive Convergence: Mechanisms, Scope Conditions, and Lessons from the Case of Indian Food Safety Reform." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/204891.
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In 2006, India began formally reconstructing its national food safety policy, subsuming over seven laws and agencies into a single streamlined regulatory authority. This moment of reform offers a "most likely" test case for theories of global policy convergence. Scholars across multiple fields predict that national politics are becoming more similar over time. Those predictions are especially strong in the field of food safety policy, as the WTO now mandates that member states align with an encyclopedic policy resource called the Codex Alimentarius. The dissertation asks whether, how, and why we see both global pressures for and actual evidence of convergence in the Indian case. I ask if the details of the case map onto the prevailing account in sociology, which predicts convergence as a result of spreading political culture; the sociology of food's broad predictions of both convergence and low political autonomy vis a vis global trade mandates; or the prevailing account in political science, which sees domestic regulatory change as a result of global competitions for consumer markets. I find very limited convergence in the Indian case, mostly limited to a nascent movement toward norms of "science-based" regulation. I also find that theories of regulatory competition best explain why India has converged to the extent it has, though the case suggests new causal mechanisms whereby trade agreements and economic competition generate regulatory change.
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Sabino, Magali. "Bioaccumulation of trace elements in Seychelles marine food webs." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021LAROS026.
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La sécurité alimentaire, qui est la garantie de l’approvisionnement et de la qualité des aliments tout en gérant les ressources de manière durable, est intrinsèquement liée à la connaissance de la biologie et l’écologie des espèces consommées. Dans un contexte de dérèglement climatique menaçant la salubrité des produits de la mer, il est donc nécessaire d’établir un référentiel sur le fonctionnement des systèmes marins, ainsi que sur l’occurrence des nutriments et des contaminants dans les produits de la mer. C’est d’autant plus important pour les Petits Etats Insulaires en Développement (PEID), qui dépendent des ressources marines pour leur subsistance, et où les produits de la pêche sont la première source de protéines et micronutriments (éléments traces essentiels) pour les populations locales. Malgré l’importance des systèmes tropicaux pour la sécurité alimentaire, ces systèmes sont peu étudiés comparés aux systèmes polaires et tempérés. Cette thèse vise à mieux comprendre le fonctionnement des systèmes marins tropicaux, et à établir un référentiel sur l’occurrence des micronutriments et des contaminants métalliques dans les produits de la pêche aux Seychelles (Océan Indien), un PEID tropical. En étudiant les concentrations en éléments traces aux niveaux inter- et intraspécifique, nous avons identifié différents facteurs intrinsèques et extrinsèques influençant la bioaccumulation de ces éléments dans les ressources marines tropicales. Nous avons aussi montré l’importance de considérer différentes échelles (individu, espèce et écosystème) pour mieux comprendre l’occurrence des éléments traces essentiels et non-essentiels dans les produits de la merFood security, that is guarantying food supply and quality while sustainably managing resources, is closely linked to knowing the biology and ecology of consumed species. In a context of global changes that are threatening seafood safety, it is thus necessary to establish baselines on marine ecosystem functioning, as well as nutrient availability and contamination occurrence in seafood. This is all the more important in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), where populations rely on marine resources for their subsistence, and where capture fisheries resources are the main sources of proteins and micronutrients (i.e. essential trace elements) in local populations’ diet. In spite of the importance of tropical systems in ensuring food security, they remain largely understudied compared to polar and temperate systems. This thesis thus aims to better understand the functioning of tropical marine systems, and to establish a baseline on micronutrient availability and metal(loid) contamination in a wide diversity of capture fisheries resources from the Seychelles (Western Indian Ocean), a tropical SIDS. By investigating trace element concentration patterns at the inter- and intraspecific levels, it was possible to identify intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing trace element bioaccumulation in tropical capture fisheries resources. We thus highlighted the importance of considering different scales (individual, species, and ecosystem) to better understand essential trace element availability and non-essential trace element occurrence in seafood
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Vallianatos, Helen. "Food, gender & power : poor & pregnant in New Delhi, India /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3136450.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 300-341). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Batal, Malek. "Sociocultural determinants of traditional food intake across indigenous communities in the Yukon and Denendeh." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38184.
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Chronic non-communicable diseases related to excessive or unbalanced dietary intakes are on the rise among some Indigenous populations in Canada. Nutritional problems of Indigenous peoples arise in the transition from a traditional diet to a market diet characterised by highly processed foods with reduced nutrient density. This study used food frequency and 24-hour recall questionnaires to quantify traditional food intake in 18 communities in Denendeh (Western Northwest Territories) and the Yukon. These data allowed comparisons between the two regions (Yukon and Denendeh) and the two seasons of data collection (summer and winter, perceived to be the seasons of highest and lowest traditional food intake, respectively). Food choice in general is affected by a multitude of factors determined by individual, societal and environmental influences. In this study, individual, household, and community correlates of traditional food intake were assessed in order to construct a multivariate statistical model to describe the correlates of the quantity and diversity of traditional food intake in the Western Canadian Arctic. The variables used in this study reflected household demography, market food affordability, access to traditional food, individual characteristics such as age and gender, and perceptions about traditional food. The analysis of the associations between the traditional food correlates and traditional food intake in terms of quantity and diversity allowed for the description of the profile of men and women who are high consumers of traditional food in both regions. This study described and used a tool to measure traditional food diversity, which may be an appropriate indicator of the process of dietary change experienced by Indigenous Peoples in Denendeh and the Yukon.
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Lambden, Allison Jill. "Food security of Canadian Arctic indigenous women." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99342.
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This secondary data analysis used a cross-sectional survey of 1771 Yukon First Nations, Dene/Metis, and Inuit women. The aims were to evaluate access to traditional food (TF) and market food (MF), identify perceived advantages of TF and MF, and explore under-studied characteristics of FS in Arctic Canada. Results indicate considerable regional variation in ability to afford adequate food, varying between 26 and 58%. Similarly, regional variation was reflected in the percentage of women who had access to hunting or fishing equipment. Participants described culturally relevant FS indicators: food needed to be natural, fresh, tasty, varied, healthy, safe, accessible, and convenient. Between 10 and 38% of participants noticed recent changes in the quality or health of TFs. Caribou, moose, and seal were popular TFs and considered particularly healthy. This study emphasizes the importance of TF for Arctic indigenous women's FS and the dynamic nature of FS in this population.
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Alexander, Christina Lynn. "Diet analysis of big brown bats (eptesicus fuscus) in east- central Indiana." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/935932.
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Big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) from a colony in Delaware County, Indiana were captured weekly from 9 July to 13 September, 1993. Food habits of the bats were quantified by analysis of fecal pellets collected in the field. The major foods were Coleopterans, particularly carabids and the agricultural pest Diabrotica undecimpunctata (averaging 54.47% and 32.91% of the total volume of fecal pellets, respectively). Other foods included Acrosternum hilare, Lepidoptera, Cicadellidae, Scarabaeidae, Curculionidae, Chrysomeloidea, Dytiscidae, Lygaeidae, Hemerobiidae, Gryllidae, Miridae, and Delphacidae. The volume of Carabidae and Galerucinae and the frequency of Carabidae and Scarabaeidae in fecal pellets varied temporally. Adults and juveniles differed significantly in the volume of Carabidae in the diet late in the summer. There was no significant difference in diet between the sexes. Diet of adults was more diverse than that of juveniles. Juveniles of both sexes had similar diet diversity.Department of Biology
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Currie, Bob. "Food crisis, administrative response and public action : some general implications from the Kalahandi issue." Thesis, University of Hull, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272006.
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Kalahandi district in Western Orissa has received extensive media attention in recent years in connection with reports of starvation deaths, child sales and Government neglect. This thesis attempts to identify the roots of hunger in Kalahandi and strategies implemented by people in the district to cope with this problem. It also analyses the performance of Government interventions implemented between 1985 and 1991 designed to promote food security, locating this analysis in a longer historical context. The study uses data collected over a seven month fieldwork period during 1992. Details of Government programmes were obtained through semi-structured interviews with Government officers and elected representatives at national and regional level. Published and unpublished Government data is used to construct time-series for variations in cropping patterns and production for a wide range of crop types over the period 1960 to 1988. Public responses to hunger and public opinion of state interventions are examined through semistructured individual and group interviews in five villages in different parts of the district. This thesis argues that the persistence of hunger in Kalahandi cannot be directly attributed to the failure of the Government to direct adequate finance and resources to relief and development programmes. It suggests that Government officers have at their disposal a wide range of well-formulated provisions to protect the vulnerable. However a range of factors limit the effectiveness of state interventions when guidelines come to be implemented in practice. In a wider context this study highlights the important role which NonGovernmental Organisations (N.G.O.'s), the media and the law courts may play in promoting food security; and the need to strengthen cooperation between the public, the administration and other key actors, including politicians and N.G.O.'s, in designing and administering measures to combat hunger.
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Carr, Raymond Eric. "Genetic variability within and between populations of turkey vultures in central Indiana." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1189408.
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Koehn, Sharon Denise. "A fine balance : family, food, and faith in the health-worlds of elderly Punjabi Hindu women." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ40539.pdf.
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Willnegger, Eva. "Patents in the food sector a retrospective with special emphasis on the TRIPs agreement." Baden-Baden Nomos, 2008. http://d-nb.info/989829693/04.
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Hendrik, te Lintelo Dolf Jan. "Beyond interests? : advocacy coalitions in the Indian policy process regarding food safety and informal sector retailing." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504843.
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Since 2003, the Indian State has introduced several high profile policy interventions to enhance food safety. Examples concern the Food Safety and Standards Act (July 2006) and a Supreme Court endorsed municipal policy to ban cooking food in Delhi's streets (May 2007). Relatively little is, however, known about either the proc~ss of policy change around food safety policy or the impacts of regulatory regimes on a rapidly proliferating informal food sector in Indian cities. This study thus examines local and national policy change regarding food safety and the informal food sector, and assesses implications for smallscale food retailers. The study investigates the suitability of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), an authoritative approach to analyse policy change in western democracies, for understanding Indian policy processes. The ACF posits that stakeholders influence policy by forming advocacy coalitions that coordinate action based on shared beliefs. Case studies are conducted of policymaking processes of the Government of India and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). The study thus investigates the Food Safety and Standards Act (2096), the National Urban Street Vending Policy (NSVP, 2004), and its implementation in the MCD. The thesis presents evidence that advocacy coalitions exist, and that their cognition of policy problems and solutions is influential in Indian policymaking processes, but argues that political and economic interests remain of analytical importance. The study further considers the role of policy implementation processes, to develop a critique of the ACF. It explores the ways in which policy practices, street level bureaucracies and political society intermediate policy outcomes for small-scale food retailers and connects official regulatory with parallel informal governance regimes. It concludes that Delhi's munidpal food hygiene regulations must be understood in conjunction with parallel processes governing access to public space.
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Burton, Emily Brooks. "Forgotten Food: Anthropological Marginalization of Tohono O'odham Foodways During the Indian New Deal and its Consequences." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/319918.
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Schmid, Martina A. "Traditional food consumption and nutritional status of Dalit mothers and young children in rural Andhra Pradesh, South India." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85646.
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Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) and vitamin A and iron deficiencies are major public health problems in India. Traditional food systems are known to be sustainable, high in species variety and have rich nutrient sources. This thesis describes nutritional status in Dalit mothers and children living in villages with the Alternative Public Distribution Program (ADDS), a community food security program based on traditional agriculture, and in control villages.We recruited 263 Dalit mother-child (6-39 months) pairs from 19 APDS and 18 control villages in the Medak District. Food frequency questionnaires and 24-hour recalls were used during two seasons in 2003. A socio-cultural questionnaire including anthropometry and clinical eye examination were obtained during rainy season.
In summer, mothers from APDS villages consumed more frequently millet (18% vs. 8%, P = 0.04) every week, and had higher intake of energy (mean +/- SD: 12,197 +/- 3,515 kJ vs. 11,172 +/- 3,352 kJ; P = 0.02) and protein (77.5 +/- 25.1 g vs. 71.1 +/- 25.2 g; P = 0.05). During rainy season, they had higher intakes of energy (11,168 +/- 3,335 kJ vs. 10,168 +/- 3,730 kJ; P = 0.04), protein (68.9 +/- 22.6 g vs. 60.4 +/- 23.8 g; P < 0.01) and iron (15.8 +/- 6.6 mg vs. 13.7 +/- 9.1 mg; P < 0.01). Overall, 58% of mothers were chronic energy deficient (BMI <18.5 kg/m2) and intake of pulses (g/day) was inversely associated with chronic energy deficiency (OR = 0.98, P < 0.01). Sorghum consumption (OR = 0.99, P = 0.03) was inversely correlated with the occurrence of clinical vitamin A deficiency symptoms which was prevalent in mothers (16%). More children from APDS villages weekly consumed millet (18% vs. 7%, P = 0.05) in summer and sorghum (76% vs. 60%, P = 0.02) every day during rainy season. The prevalence of stunted, wasted and underweight children was 33%, 52%, and 63%, respectively.
Our findings show that dietary patterns, but not nutritional status, differ between mothers from villages with and without APDS. Malnutrition (PEM, vitamin A deficiency) is a prevalent problem in these rural poor communities and traditional food consumption plays a key protective role.
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Coghlan, Christopher. "Towards food security with nutritional health : multi-scale approaches." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:faec7323-edbd-440b-9a60-01cc84532b68.
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This thesis addresses multi-scale approaches for improving food security with nutritional health. It argues that four key themes: scale, nutrition, trade, and governance are not given adequate attention in food security and nutrition studies. A multi-scale framework links the overriding thematic structure, bridges gaps, and enriches analysis. It facilitates a blended approach of analysis for food security and nutrition studies, public policy, and critical geography. Nutrition is at the centre of the inquiry and addresses the triple burden of malnutrition: hunger, micronutrient malnutrition, and obesity. Nutrition is hampered by an incomplete understanding of dietary diversity. Trade and governance are complimentary and cover dynamic commodity exchanges which might develop along with improved programme delivery. At the structural core of the work are four research papers which interact with established and emergent food security indicators and data for: the international system, nations, Indian states, and districts within Karnataka. Each paper uses specific methodological tools which are most compatible with the unique characteristics of the relevant scale. The first paper applies benchmarking and compares international FAO food security indictors with the EIU and other best practice sources to argue for improved data. In order to inform malnutrition beyond hunger, the second paper inputs FAOSTAT national food balance sheet data into a dietary food supply model of key nutritional food groups for medium activity individuals. The third paper employs Indiastat data to construct a food potential model representative of major components of the Indian food system, and compares it with production information for pulse varieties for inclusion in the NFSA. The fourth paper creates a nutritional HDI, compares it against the production of cereals and pulses, and considers weather conditions. Results illustrate that the FAO does not give proper attention to including governance indicators or capturing dietary diversity beyond hunger. Food balance sheet data shows that the majority of the world lacks the proper supply of key food groups to sustain a medium activity lifestyle, with fruit & vegetable deficits equally present in developed and developing nations. In India, states with the lowest food potential are located in the north and east of the country while some neighbouring states contain pulse production advantages. Further opportunities exist to use digital technologies to improve the administration of the programme. Similarly, northern districts of Karnataka require more direct NFSA intervention while the southern and coastal districts have the potential for increased production and trade of pulses. Implications for this study are centred on the development of future food security and nutritional health studies, policy, and administration. When possible, food security and nutrition studies can broaden their conclusions by expanding their base of indicators and data to take into account multi-disciplinary information. Possibilities for richer studies are evident through the development of more robust governance and dietary diversity indicators. These could focus on measurable programme results and take into account the impact of food groups and nutritional supply on various types of malnutrition. Multi-scale analysis might inspire cross-boundary policy formulation and assist in the development and trade of food system resources. The administration of food security programmes might improve with further study and the use of technology as a tool for delivery. This thesis clarifies how multi-scale approaches to food security and nutrition can be advanced through conceptual, methodological, and empirical work combining critical engagement, data analysis, and public policy.
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Subramanian, Kapil. "Revisiting the Green Revolution : irrigation and food production in twentieth-century India." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/revisiting-the-green-revolution(c7fedff0-862a-4fdb-aef8-0526f78772b5).html.
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This is a new history of irrigation and food production in twentieth-century India. It seeks to challenge the known story of Green Revolution, to question the role of plant breeding in the history of twentieth century agriculture and to de-centre the big dam from our picture of water and modernity. This thesis argues that there is no evidence of a breakthrough in Indian food production the 1960s and 1970s where a Green Revolution is typically placed; this was in fact a period of relatively slow growth in foodgrain production and yields within an era of high growth that had actually begun around 1950. Wheat, which was a small part of India’s food basket was an exception to this general trend of slow growth in the 1960s and 1970s. I argue that High Yielding Varieties of seeds had little to do with this leap in productivity; this was driven by a quick expansion in irrigation facilitated by private tubewells. Tubewell irrigation was initiated by the colonial state and interwar India had the world’s largest tubewell programme. The ability of tubewells to deliver quick results put them on the central government agenda during the Second World War and emphasis on public irrigation (whether from tubewells or dams) increased during the Nehruvian period. The mid-1960s however saw an emphasis on the private tubewell, based on a vision of the peasant as a rational profit-maximizing being who was in conflict with public irrigation systems and their equity objectives. The private-profit motive was put at the centre of agricultural policy, and aided by the World Bank, the government mounted a programme of cheap loans to promote private tubewells which quickly became the most important means of irrigation in India. Putting the tubewell at the heart of my study allows me to re-conceptualise late twentieth-century Indian agriculture. By showing how the World Bank and elite development actors favoured private tubewells, I argue that rising inequality was built into technology choice. This thesis traces the new centrality of the private motive in agricultural policy to Theodore Schultz’s theory of the poor but efficient peasant and argues that ideas of peasant rationality were also central to the adoption of the HYVs which merely justified appropriation of inoptimal quantities of fertilizer by large farmers to produce super-normal yields even as higher overall production could have resulted from spreading fertilizer thin on tall Indian wheat varieties.
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Rideout, Karen Lynne. "From corporate to connected : resisting food system distancing in India and Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43708.
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The mainstream western food system is built on industrial production, processing, packaging, and distribution of highly processed food products that are detrimental to dietary, social, and ecological health. This unhealthy food system is characterized by a growing physical and conceptual distance between the production and consumption of food. Although distancing is often cited as a problem within the industrial food system, little is known about how it manifests in people’s lives or how best to address the problem of distancing in the food system. By examining the perspectives and motivations of people who are engaged in resisting distancing, this research highlights the meaning and value of food in their lives and shows how a focus on the intrinsic value of food can support healthy food systems change. This study examined how individuals in India and Canada resisted food system distancing, how they understood the problem of distancing, and assessed their motivations to resist. Thirty-seven semi-structured interviews were conducted in a qualitative, cross-cultural comparative study. Distancing and industrialization were seen as mutually supportive phenomena that concentrate power in middle spaces occupied by large corporations, usually to the detriment of individual producers and consumers of food. Although resisters in India and Canada were experiencing different levels of food system industrialization, participants in both countries felt that industrialization contributed to changes in social norms and individual values which, once normalized, facilitated further distancing. The primary motivation of the research participants was a belief that food has intrinsic or sacred value. Resisters in India used more explicitly spiritual language, but people in both countries described how recognition of the intrinsic value of food provided a source of deep spiritual meaning in their lives. Based on the interpretations and motivations of these resisters, this study concludes that there is a need for a paradigm shift in how food is conceptualized in mainstream society. This would require a broad, systemic approach designed to enable recognition of food’s intrinsic value and support meaningful connections around food without codifying ideological visions of a singular “right” kind of food system.
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モニカ, ラコヴィタ, and Monica Racovita. "Policies of genetically modified crops in India: food security and biosafety politics." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB12252585/?lang=0, 2011. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB12252585/?lang=0.
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Porqueddu, Tania. "Ethnographic investigation of the impact of type 2 diabetes among Indian and Pakistani migrants." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9754.
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This thesis explores the impact of type 2 diabetes among Indian and Pakistani migrants. Indians and Pakistanis living in the UK have a high incidence of type 2 diabetes and associated complications. Research is needed in order to understand factors that make it difficult to adhere to lifestyle advice about diet, exercise and medication. Drawing on data collected during a sixteen-month ethnographic investigation, this thesis explores Indians’ and Pakistanis’ perceptions of diabetes. The research revealed that Indians and Pakistanis related the onset of diabetes to processes of migration and settling in the UK as well as to stress and depression. In particular, holding on to negative thoughts and worries, were perceived by respondents as directly affecting the body by causing stress, depression and eventually illness. Struggles over diabetes control were also perceived as to cause distress. Specifically, respondents struggled to adhere to a healthy diet regime, since food, especially taste, played a crucial role in forming, reinforcing and demarcating social relations and in ensuring cultural continuity. In addition, respondents struggled to ‘adhere’ to their prescriptions of diabetes medications due to the uncomfortable side effects that they experienced, particularly in the stomach. Respondents, however, counteracted side effects by turning to alternative medications which were perceived to facilitate flow within the circulatory and digestive system. Thus, in spite of the difficulties that Indians and Pakistanis experienced in following biomedical recommendations for diabetes control, they still actively engaged in searching and using different treatments available to them in order to control the disease.
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Pankaj, Priya. "Purchase behaviour for store brands in India: a study of processed and packaged food category." Thesis, IIT Delhi, 2014. http://localhost:8080/iit/handle/2074/6660.
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Whittaker, Lana. "Realising the right to food in India : insights from the Midday Meal Scheme in Rajasthan." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274897.
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This thesis examines the everyday realisation of rights in India’s school-feeding programme, the Midday Meal Scheme. The commitment to realising the right to food in India is well-established. In 2001, a petition to the Supreme Court and subsequent orders made existing food-based schemes (including the Midday Meal Scheme) a legal entitlement under a right to food. These schemes then became the core components of the National Food Security Act in 2013. In consequence, eligible children in India have a right to a MDM that adheres to specific guidelines and have a broader right to food. Despite these commitments to rights, the extent to which India’s food-based social protection schemes reflect a rights-based approach has not, hitherto, been explored. Indeed, although the importance of state-led, rights-based social protection schemes to address food insecurity is now widely recognised, the relationship between these means and ends has been insufficiently explored. In this context, drawing on nearly one year of mixed-methods research in the Indian state of Rajasthan, I examine the extent to which India’s Midday Meal Scheme adheres to a rights-based approach to realising food security. To do so, I examine three components of a rights-based system in the context of the scheme: rights-holders and their entitlements; duty-bearers and their duties; and the mechanisms through which duty-bearers can be held to account for the non-fulfilment of their obligations. I draw on detailed field research in two districts to show that, in its present form, the scheme is limited from the perspective of rights. Not all those in need are necessarily included in the scheme; the food that rights- holders receive often does not meet their needs, duty-bearers fail to adequately fulfil their duties; and accountability mechanisms fail to hold them accountable. Consequently, rights-holders often do not receive their entitlements and the right to food remains unfulfilled. Overall, I show that the realisation of rights to depends on the capabilities of rights-holders to realise their rights and on the capacity and motivation of duty-bearers to fulfil their duties.
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Clark-Phinney, Marcia. "Effect of group foraging size on vigilance by turkey vultures (Cathartes aura)." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217395.
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Turkey vultures were observed foraging alone and in groups of up to 16 individuals. Vigilance behavior was quantified by monitoring 4 aspects of vulture foraging behavior (proportion ofhead up time, number of head raises per minute, time interval between head raises, and proportion of time spent foraging during foraging bouts). Although solitary foragers spent 91% of their foraging bouts actively foraging, a greater proportion (47%)of their foraging time was spent with their heads up compared to individuals occurring in groups (<29%). Similarly, individuals in small groups (2-3 and 5-7) were more vigilant than individuals in large groups (8-16). Solitary foraging vultures raised their heads at a significantly higher rate than those foraging in groups of 5-7 or 8-16 and had significantly shorter intervals between head raises than group foragers. Large group foragers were able to minimize their vulnerability to predation because at least one head was up during the entire foraging bout. Results of this study were consistent with the 'many-eyes, hypothesis that individuals in a foraging group can feed at a faster rate by reducing vigilance time as the number of individuals scanning for predators increases (Pulliam, H. R. 1973. J. Theor. Biol. 38: 419-422).Key Words: turkey vulture, vulture, vigilance, foraging behavior, group size, Indiana.Department of Biology
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Das, Gupta Amlan. "Essays on some determinants of food-security and consumption of nutrients in India." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50671.
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This thesis is motivated by the unique experience of India regarding economic growth and the corresponding impact on nutritional status. Despite sustained periods of growth, malnutrition levels in India have shown modest improvement. Moreover, average calorie consumption in the country is going down even as consumption expenditure and incomes go up. The objective of this thesis is to shed light on some possible causes of this puzzling phenomenon. The second chapter is a theoretical exploration of the possibility that preference for conspicuous consumption could be a factor contributing to this decline in calorie consumption. This chapter starts by incorporating status seeking preferences in a dual-economy general equilibrium model and then demonstrates that, in such a setting, economic growth could lead to a fall in calorie consumption across the income distribution even with incomes rising at the same time. In Chapter 3 the implications of the main assumption of "keeping up with the Jones" preferences, from the theoretical model of Chapter 2, is tested in the data. This assumption implies that household calorie consumption should decline with peer group income. So the effect of peer group income on calorie consumption is estimated using World Bank data collected from rural India. Using these estimates it is roughly estimated that Veblen competition can account for more than a third of the missing calories. A unique source of variation in peer group income, based on caste-wise domination across villages, is used for identification. The fourth chapter looks at the impact of the public food distribution system (PDS) in India, on the household per capita consumption of calories and proteins. This effect is identified using random shocks introduced into the delivery system of PDS through the impact of rainfall on agricultural output in the state which is the largest supplier of grains to the system. The results suggest that a rise in PDS performance has different effect in different regions in the country. Yet, for those who benefit from this system, the impact on nutrient consumption and malnutrition is significant and large.Arts, Faculty of
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Kuroda, Ken. "Visceral politics of food : the bio-moral economy of worklunch in Mumbai, India." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3792/.
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This Ph.D. examines how commuters in Mumbai, India, negotiate their sense of being and wellbeing through their engagements with food in the city. It focuses on the widespread practice of eating homemade lunches in the workplace, important for commuters to replenish mind and body with foods that embody their specific family backgrounds, in a society where religious, caste, class, and community markers comprise complex dietary regimes. Eating such charged substances in the office canteen was essential in reproducing selfhood and social distinction within Mumbai’s cosmopolitan environment. These engagements were “visceral” since they were experienced in and expressed through the intimate scale of the gut, mediating and consolidating boundaries between self and Other on lines of (incommensurable) food habits. Such tensions, most visible between vegetarians and meat eaters, were aggravated in the wake of the “beef ban” in March 2015, which illegalized the slaughter of cattle in the state of Maharashtra, wherein cosmopolitan pleasure gave way to visceral disgust and estrangement. In connection, this thesis examines the vast work-lunch economy of Mumbai through three prominent businesses: the Dabbawalas, a 125-year-old home food delivery network; tiffin services, informal catering businesses operated by housewives, who commercially hybridize homemade food; and tech food start-ups, run by a generation of young entrepreneurs striving for novel takes on homemade food. Whereas anthropological literature on India has analysed either the emergence of a new urban public sphere since India’s economic liberalization, or the ripples it has made in the domestic sphere, this thesis examines how these businesses address commuter specific bio-moral anxieties of maintaining communal identity, purity, and wellbeing within the stressful environment of contemporary Mumbai, by means of mediating domestic intimacy with the urban public, at an affordable price. These interventions are conceptualized as “technologies of purity”, specific forms of visceral politics of food.
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Bersanini, Anna <1993>. "FOOD SECURITY AND CSR IN THE DAIRY INDUSTRY; ITALY AND INDIA IN COMPARISON." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/13963.
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Questa tesi affronta il tema della Responsabilità sociale d'impresa nelle aziende dell'industria agro-alimentare affrontando vari temi tra cui quello della sicurezza alimentare sia in Europa che in India, la CSR nei suoi vari aspetti e il settore lattiero-caseario . Terminerà con un confronto tra un'azienda lattiero-casearia Italiana e una Indiana; il confronto riguarderà non solo la CSR ma anche i metodi di produzione e gli standard qualitativi seguiti.
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Bukht, Rumana. "Responsibility, regulation and the construction of markets of nanotechnologies in food and food packaging : the cases of Canada and India." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/responsibility-regulation-and-the-construction-of-markets-of-nanotechnologies-in-food-and-food-packaging-the-cases-of-canada-and-india(3624dd5f-e9fe-45f8-9225-73de26411bb5).html.
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Scientific research, technological development, and commercialisation are processes through which new technologies continually emerge and enter markets. Nanotechnology is an example of an emergent technology (or rather a suite of technologies) which promises to open up a universe of possibilities for the development of new products and processes. Advocates of the technology argue that nanotechnology has the potential to spur economic development while at the same time offering partial solutions to many of the grand challenges of our times such as alleviating hunger, providing new energy sources, reducing climate change, curing diseases, etc. However, alongside these optimistic views, there are also fears and apprehensions concerning the safe and ethical development of nanotechnologies, including the need to address potential negative impacts on the natural environment and human health and safety. The food and food packaging area has shown itself to be a particularly sensitive sector in this respect where the potential for nanoparticles to enter the human body has enhanced the sensitivity of the industry to public concern. The past has shown that any changes or modifications made to food have resulted in public backlash (e.g. GM foods). Due to this some parts of the food and packaging industry remain cautious about making transparent their use of nanotechnologies in their products and processes. However, simultaneously pressure is mounting from regulatory agencies, and from some activists, to pursue the safe and 'responsible' development of nanotechnologies (whatever that may be) as an ethical obligation. The use of nanotechnologies in food and food packaging has become increasingly complex because of its introduction at various points in the food chain, giving rise to debates as to "who is responsible". As a contribution to the debate on what constitutes the 'responsible' governance of new/emergent technologies, this thesis investigates the governance of nanotechnologies and the idea of 'responsibility' and 'responsible innovation' through the lens of perspectives of different actors within the nanotech food chain. A qualitative research methodology was used where semi-structured interviews were conducted with a heterogeneous group of actors with a particular focus on the food and food packaging sectors. Research in comparative national settings (Canada and India) was conducted on the grounds that regulation of nanotechnologies differs significantly across OECD and non-OECD countries, and where the global debate on nanotechnologies is organised and dominated by OECD countries. Findings from this thesis showed that the set of critical elements, such as health and safety, that are put forward by such OECD countries like Canada for the 'responsible' development of nanotechnologies are not the same as that found in India and are seen to differ. In India, meeting the grand challenges of society such as food security, clean drinking water and alleviating poverty take precedent over other elements, where science, technology (such as nanotechnologies) and innovation are harnessed by entrepreneurs, and small and large firms to solve these national problems. However, while I began the study with the intention of comparing two national territories with different regulatory settings, the study also found a case of collaborative Canada-India transnational research network where 'responsibility' is influenced through certain funding criteria set by the more dominant partner, Canada. This suggests the return of public intervention by dominant OECD countries in pro-actively shaping R&D processes that are influencing the 'responsible' development of nano-products in such emerging markets, where there is a potential for future trade associations.
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MacNeil, Margaret M. "Does timber harvesting affect Cerulean warbler foraging ecology?" CardinalScholar 1.0, 2010. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1567420.
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We determined foraging characteristics of Cerulean Warblers (Dendroica cerulea) in Morgan-Monroe and Yellowwood state forests in southern Indiana from 2007-2009. The average foraging height, tree height, and tree diameter at breast height (dbh) were greater for males than females. During 2008, areas of our study site received silvicultural manipulations that allowed us to compare foraging behavior before and after treatments. Harvesting techniques included shelterwood and clearcut or single and group tree selection. Foraging Cerulean Warblers in harvested areas had a lower average foraging height, tree height, and dbh during post-treatment than in pre-treatment years. Additionally, we examined foraging tree species selection and determined expected foraging tree species use based on basal area and stem density of tree species in the territories. We compared territory composition to random sites to explore tree selection on a larger scale. The most commonly used foraging tree species were bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis), white oak (Quercus alba), and tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera).Department of Biology