Emergency Food Supplies Research Articles

Drones in Human Aid and Disaster Relief using Thermal Imaging Technology

Disaster Rescue is a very dangerous job to carry out the process without risking more lives in the process as the environment plays a major role. To find the people, requires the system to identify the movement and recognize the human by using the Thermal imaging system in the place of low-temperature areas such as forests, flood areas, Dark places, and so on. Not just thermal but also RGB cameras, stereo cameras and Infrared cameras are used to gain the surrounding situational inference, and by using the intelligent system to identify humans by their body shape from a distance and using the CV pipeline the movement can be identified and confirmed for victims condition in the disaster area. By mounting the optical systems in the Drone, the process makes it safe for the people, and a quick rescue response can be implemented. Using the heavy payload carrying Drone to supply emergency kit and food supplies to the Victims on time. It as well can also act as an emergency communication Network establishment with the GPS to gain the location of a specific point of Disaster regions.

The Sosialisasi Pangan Darurat: Pengasapan Pangan Asal Hewani di Kelompok Sari Tani Kecamatan Cugenang Kabupaten Cianjur

Cianjur is a high-risk area for seismic disasters, so it is important to pay attention to emergency food supplies. One type of emergency food that could be developed is smoked foods of animal origin (PAH). The activities carried out are aimed at generating enthusiasm and enhancing the skills of the community so that they can continue to process food products of animal origin and can produce them independently. So that Cianjur, especially Cugenang district, becomes a disaster-resilient area. future area. PKM activities were carried out on August 18, 2023 at Sari Tani Group's business location, Wangun Jaya Village, Cugenang District, Cianjur, West Java, with Sari Tani Group partners. The steps taken to implement PKM activities included discussion, socialization, and evaluation of the activities (pre-test and post-test). The results of PKM activities show a change in the level of understanding of participants about influencing factors, processing steps and methods that can be applied in smoking technology of original food products. animals, from 20% to 93.33%. PKM results also showed changes in participants' level of knowledge about correct methods according to regulations of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the role of smoke chemicals in the process. disinfection and any negative effects that may arise from root-based disinfection technology from 6.67% to 86.67%.

THE LIGHTHOUSE MOVIE: DOMINATION, SUBJUGATION, AND EXPLOITATION

Power relations is a compelling and complex social issue that has been present throughout human history. It is just as prominent in today’s day and age as in every period of human life; it is also represented in movies. The Lighthouse movie, written and directed by Robert Eggars (2019), depicts the life of two lighthouse keepers, a supervisor and his assistant. They get stranded on a remote island off the coast of New England in the 1890s when a massive storm hits the island. Left with only alcohol as their emergency food supply, the power balance between supervisor and assistant worsens. This article is a film study; the film was analyzed by examining the narrative and cinematography elements. The discussion consults Michel Foucault’s theory (1982) regarding power relations, how power works, the forms they take, and how it is imposed. The finding shows that the supervisor exercises power through domination, subjugation, and exploitation of the assistant. As the setting of the place, the lighthouse has a symbolic meaning of power; as it navigates the ships on the sea, the lighthouse keeper rules what happens both inside and outside his house.

A Comprehensive Review of Geospatial Technology Applications in Earthquake Preparedness, Emergency Management, and Damage Assessment

The level of destruction caused by an earthquake depends on a variety of factors, such as magnitude, duration, intensity, time of occurrence, and underlying geological features, which may be mitigated and reduced by the level of preparedness of risk management measures. Geospatial technologies offer a means by which earthquake occurrence can be predicted or foreshadowed; managed in terms of levels of preparation related to land use planning; availability of emergency shelters, medical resources, and food supplies; and assessment of damage and remedial priorities. This literature review paper surveys the geospatial technologies employed in earthquake research and disaster management. The objectives of this review paper are to assess: (1) the role of the range of geospatial data types; (2) the application of geospatial technologies to the stages of an earthquake; (3) the geospatial techniques used in earthquake hazard, vulnerability, and risk analysis; and (4) to discuss the role of geospatial techniques in earthquakes and related disasters. The review covers past, current, and potential earthquake-related applications of geospatial technology, together with the challenges that limit the extent of usefulness and effectiveness. While the focus is mainly on geospatial technology applied to earthquake research and management in practice, it also has validity as a framework for natural disaster risk assessments, emergency management, mitigation, and remediation, in general.

Establishing a Multidisciplinary Framework for an Emergency Food Supply System Using a Modified Delphi Approach.

A scientific food emergency supply system is helpful for assuring food supplies continuity, improving response efficiency, and reducing disaster losses. However, the framework for a food emergency supply system is currently an understudied area in emergency management post-disaster. In this study, a comprehensive literature review of major databases was performed to identify potential indicators for the emergency food supply system, followed by a two-round modified Delphi with a multidisciplinary expert panel (n = 17) to verify the proposed framework. The effective response rate of questionnaires ranged from 94.4% (17/18) to 100% (17/17) and the authority coefficient of experts was 0.88, indicating high positivity and reliability of the experts. Furthermore, the p-values of Kendall’s W were < 0.01 and the Cronbach’s α were > 0.7 for all domains and indicators, indicating a high reliability and validity for the proposed framework. Finally, a consensus was reached on all eight domains and 81 indicators. In conclusion, this study introduced and verified a multidisciplinary framework for the food emergency supply system, which could provide a theoretical basis for emergency responders to make corresponding commands and decisions post-disaster.

Theorising the Microfoundations of analytics empowerment capability for humanitarian service systems.

The world is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Humanitarian service systems are being empowered to tackle this crisis through the use of vast amounts of structured and unstructured data to protect vulnerable individuals and communities. Analytics has emerged as a powerful platform to visualise, predict, and prescribe solutions to humanitarian crises, such as disease containment, healthcare capacity, and emergency food supply. However, there is a paucity of research on the microfoundations of the humanitarian analytics empowerment capability. As such, drawing on dynamic capability theory and by means of a systematic literature review and thematic analysis, this study proposes an analytics empowerment capability framework for humanitarian service systems. The findings show that analytics culture, technological sophistication, data-driven insights, decision making autonomy, knowledge and skills, and training and development are crucial components of the analytics empowerment’s capability to sense, seize, and remedy crisis situations. The paper discusses both theoretical and practical research implications.

CEREAL FLAKES FROM Ipomoea batatas AND Setaria italica AS EMERGENCY FOOD: CHEMICAL, MICROBIOLOGICAL, AND SENSORY PROPERTIES DURING STORAGE

Emergency food supplies the daily human energy needs during emergencies. This research aimed to determine the effects of storage periode of cereal flakes made from sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica) on the chemical, microbiological, and sensory properties. The composition of cereal flakes used was 75% of sweet potato flour and 25% of jewawut flour. Cereal flakes were tested for proximate levels (moisture, ash, protein, fat, and carbohydrate), crude fiber content, TPC, and sensory. The change observed after 40 days storage at 40⁰C and RH 70% were 0.61-2.51% in moisture content, 2.29 - 1.91% in ash content, 7.44-7.19% in protein content, 18.79-18.09% in fat content, 70.88 - 70.40% in carbohydrate content, 5.28 - 4.98% in crude fiber content, and TPC 5.5x101 - 3.1x103 cfu/g. Forty days observation showed that cereal flakes remained in good quality for consumption based on SNI 01-4270-1996. The product is adequate as an alternative of emergency food.

Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey.

MotivationDetailed empirical work on the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on food security is scant. Local management of food security has received little attention.PurposeThis article describes emergency food policies in Wuhan and Nanjing, China during lockdown in 2020 and their implications for household food security in the two cities.Methods and approachPolicy documents and background data describe the emergency measures. Online surveys of residents of two Chinese cities were used to gauge household food security.FindingsDespite the determined efforts of provincial and city governments to ensure that food reached people who were locked down in Wuhan, or subject to restrictions on movement in Nanjing, households experienced some decline in food security. Most households found they could not access their preferred foods. But a minority of households did not get enough to eat.Government had contingency plans for the pandemic that ensured that most people had sufficient, if not preferred, food. But not all households were fully covered.Policy implicationsA more resilient system of food distribution is needed, including a relatively closed and independent home delivery system. Grassroots organizations such as residential community committees, property management organizations, and spontaneous volunteer groups need to be brought into the management of emergency food provision.

Rapid loss of biomass and viability of air-exposed food reserve tubers from a dynamic wetland system in Mozambique

Climate change is already affecting East Africa. This includes the Banhine area, the driest region in Mozambique, but with a steadily increasing population. In favourable times people live from subsistence farming, which depends on rainfall. However, during prolonged dry periods when crops fail they depend on wild plant reserves such as Bolboschoenus glaucus tubers. Larger areas of surface-exposed tubers of this key plant species have been found in the Banhine area, probably dug up by burrowing animals. With the intention of imitating increasingly long periods of drought, we investigated the consequences when B. glaucus tubers are moved upwards from the substrate in an empirical greenhouse experiment. We observed that once brought up from the soil substrate, these storage organs rapidly lose mass and do not retain their vitality even for half a year. Our findings imply that these tubers are best kept in situ. The lack of resistance of these edible plants to disturbances in dry climate conditions can have serious consequences for emergency food supply of local populations and animals. Therefore, follow-up studies are warranted and awareness should be raised.

Providing menu and shopping toolkits to improve food access and security during a pandemic

In response to COVID-19 stay-safe-at-home orders, the University of Minnesota Extension created and disseminated menu and shopping list toolkits for use by consumers and emergency food supply organi­zations. The menus were developed to use items commonly available from food pantries and small rural grocery stores. The menu and shopping toolkits have been useful to provide to consumers who are shelter­ing in place during the pandemic and may be useful to consumers and emergency food providers during other emergencies such as natural and human-made disasters that may limit access to food.

Child poverty, food insecurity, and respiratory health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Child poverty, food insecurity, and respiratory health during the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19: socio-environmental challenges of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Multifaceted international and national collaborative responses and progress have sustained the world’s largest densely populated refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh. Yet, the Rohingyas remain in an extremely precarious situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The refugees are living in highly challenging circumstances of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), natural disasters of the monsoon season as well as existing health and educational challenges of HIV, malnutrition and other diseases. Particulate matter PM2.5 in the sampling camps varied from 44 μg/m3 to 546 μg/m3, whereas PM10 in the sampling camps varied from 125 μg/m3 to 1122 μg/m3. Due to lock-down of Cox’s Bazar, aid workers in and out of the camps were restrained with the only continuation of emergency food and medical service supplies. Largely dependent on aid during the ongoing pandemic, an investigation of the socio-environmental challenges of the refugee camps will identify the anticipatory impacts and needs.

Advancing Knowledge of How and Why Food Insecurity Is Associated with Poor Well-Being in Families and Individuals across the Life Course

Food security was defined 30 years ago in the United States as “access to enough food for an active, healthy life. It includes at a minimum (a) the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods and (b) an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (e.g., without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies).”1 The converse, food insecurity, “exists whenever the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways is limited or uncertain.”1 Even as a high-income country, 11.8% of US households in 2017 experienced food insecurity at some time during the previous 12 months, with a higher prevalence for households with children (15.7%), children under age 6 years (16.4%), children headed by a single woman (30.3%) or a single man (19.7%), women living alone (13.9%), men living alone (13.4%), black non-Hispanics heads (21.8%) and Hispanics heads (18.0%), and incomes below 185% of the federal poverty line (30.8%).

Foodbanks: their use and how to access one.

I was recently at a conference of GPs and a paper was presented related to food poverty. In the discussion that followed, I realised that I, and many others in the room with me, lacked a full understanding of how a foodbank is run or accessed. Here I share my experiences of visiting a local foodbank in East Yorkshire with a foundation doctor colleague. Foodbanks are run by the voluntary sector, the largest being the Trussell Trust with a network of over 420 foodbanks.1 They gave away over 1.3 million emergency food supplies last year, nearly half a million to people with children.1 When we arrived at the foodbank, we were struck by the unassuming location. It was basically a small office and storeroom situated halfway down a residential road. We …

Climate Fiction as Environmental Education

Climate Fiction as Environmental Education

Importance of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus spp.) in the diet of European Bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) breeding in oceanic climate

Breeding attempts of European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) pairs have occasionally been documented far north of the species’ normal range, exceptionally as far as the 17 °C July isotherm. These attempts often failed—in many cases in association with adverse and fluctuating weather conditions, which are thought to lead to, amongst other effects, starvation of the nestlings. This lead to the question: what dietary conditions must be fulfilled for the adults to stay at sites characterized by a cool-wet sea climate and raise chicks successfully? Information regarding this question is very sparse in the literature, but an exceptional opportunity to investigate it arose in 2015 when ten pairs of the species arrived as classic ‘overshooters’ at the Frisian North Sea coast in northwest Germany (53°70′N, 7°88′E) and started to breed. By means of photographic documentation, 1205 prey items were identified; bumblebees (Bombus spp.) were the most abundant prey group representing 38.0% of the items and 60.2% of the total prey mass. A review of 32 European studies (north of the 21 °C July isotherm) on the species’ diet composition revealed that the proportion of bumblebees in the prey increases the more the climate approaches oceanic in character (median of the proportion for adults = 38.6%, for nestlings = 55.0%). As the climate becomes increasingly continental, bumblebees decline in their abundance and importance behind other airborne insect groups (median adults = 16.1%, nestlings = 29.4%). All in all, the following factors may well have been instrumental in successful chick rearing at the Frisian North Sea coast: (1) a manifestly high abundance of bumblebees as a basic food supply, (2) considerable insect diversity (and abundance) in the main feeding habitat, and (3) the presence of beehives to provide an emergency food supply during cold and rainy weather when no other aerial insects were flying.

The contribution of food composition resources to nutrition science methodology

AbstractAdvances in nutrition science methods and tools have underpinned better understanding of the complex interactions between diet, nutrition and health. One example is the development of food composition tables, which provide detailed information about the energy and nutrient content of foods. They are important in many fields, including clinical practice and research, and are used in a variety of ways; for example, to assess national population‐level programmes and surveys, formulate emergency food supplies and develop therapeutic diets. In recent years, food composition tables have widened in scope and accessibility but most do not include bioactive compounds, the consumption of which is associated with reduced risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease.Established in 2009, European Food Information Resource (EuroFIR) Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif (AISBL) is a non‐profit member‐based association in Belgium and a leading advocate for food information in Europe. It promotes the use of food composition data across the wider food, nutrition and health research and policy landscapes, raises awareness and understanding of the value of these data, especially for consumers in making healthier dietary choices, and works with other organisations [e.g. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations] to facilitate improved data quality, storage and access to encourage wider exploitation of food composition data for both research and commercial purposes.EuroFIR has produced a range of tools to help data compilers and helped develop a European standard for food composition data to support the exchange and comparison of data. It is essential that investment to improve these tools and develop new methods continues, especially in regions without food composition databases. Such activities also need to be cost‐effective and scientifically robust, and engage effectively with stakeholders.

Rural Community Disaster Preparedness and Risk Perception in Trujillo, Peru.

After designing a novel disaster preparedness and risk perception survey based on guidelines from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC; Geneva, Switzerland), investigators performed a cross-sectional survey of potentially vulnerable communities surrounding Trujillo, Peru. Data were entered and analyzed utilizing the Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap; Harvard Catalyst; Boston, Massachusetts USA) database. A total of 230 study participants were surveyed, composed of 37% males, 63% females, with ages ranging from 18-85 years old. Those surveyed who had previously experienced a disaster (41%) had a higher perception of future disaster occurrence and potential disaster impact on their community. Overall, the study participants consistently perceived that earthquakes and infection had the highest potential impact of all disasters. Twenty-six percent of participants had an emergency supply of food, 24% had an emergency water plan, 24% had a first aid kit at home, and only 20% of the study participants had an established family evacuation plan. Natural and man-made disasters will remain a threat to the safety and health of communities in all parts of the world, especially within vulnerable communities in LMICs; however, little research has been done to identify disaster perception, vulnerability, and preparedness in LMIC communities. The current study established that selected communities near Trujillo, Peru recognize a high disaster impact from earthquakes and infection, but are not adequately prepared for potential future disasters. By identifying high-risk demographics, targeted public health interventions are needed to prepare vulnerable communities in the following areas: emergency food supplies, emergency water plan, medical supplies at home, and establishing evacuation plans. Stewart M , Grahmann B , Fillmore A , Benson LS . Rural community disaster preparedness and risk perception in Trujillo, Peru. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2017;32(4):387-392.

Sago: A Disparaged but Essential Food of the Abelam of Papua New Guinea

Sago is a starchy food processed from the pith of the sago palm. Although it is their staple in the lean time between the harvests of more savory options, the Abelam people of Papua New Guinea do not relish it. The interlude between yam harvests has been called the “hungry time” (though there is plenty to eat) both because of the perceived unpalatability of sago and the monotony of a sago-based diet. But the sago palm has many advantages: it is long-lived, requires little attention, and can be harvested almost any time. It serves both as seasonal fare and as an emergency food supply for hard times, insuring against crop failure and providing food security. Sago protected the Abelam during the severe drought of 1997–98 and its aftermath, and is now supplementing their diet as they recover from the 2015 El Niño drought. Why, then, is it so disparaged? This article argues that Abelam traditionally regarded themselves as “People of the Yam,” viewing sago as prototypically “Not Yam.” Sago grows in less preferred environments with little effort. Its consistency and taste, symbolism, and imagery are all in direct opposition to the yam. By acting as a foil for the yam, sago allows Abelam to reinforce their distinctiveness as a people. Disdaining sago provides an avenue for expressing self-identity and valorizing a preferred food.

Don't Wait Until a Disaster Strikes! Use an Innovative Disaster Planning Calculator and Menu Toolkit to Accurately Project Your Facility's Emergency Food and Water Supply

Don't Wait Until a Disaster Strikes! Use an Innovative Disaster Planning Calculator and Menu Toolkit to Accurately Project Your Facility's Emergency Food and Water Supply