Back to search

URBAN CHALLENGES TO FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY: A REVIEW OF FOOD SECURITY, HEALTH, AND CAREGIVING IN THE CITIES

Data up to Jan 2025

Published1998
Citations224
References179

Total Citations Per Year

Abstract

References (179)

Obesity : Preventing and managing the global epidemic

2000 • 12,240 citations

Cornell University Press

2014 • 3,416 citations

World Urbanization Prospects: The 1996 Revision

1998 • 3,192 citations

Agency for International Development

1978 • 2,562 citations

World Development Report 1990.

1990 • 1,807 citations

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

1981 • 1,531 citations

Interactions of Nutrition and Infection

1969 • 1,332 citations

The Nutrition Transition: New Trends in the Global Diet

2009 • 1,302 citations

Effects of improved water supply and sanitation on ascariasis, diarrhoea, dracunculiasis, hookworm infection, schistosomiasis, and trachoma.

1991 • 1,095 citations

The Nutrition Transition in Low-Income Countries: An Emerging Crisis

2009 • 978 citations

Human resources: empirical modeling of household and family decisions.

1995 • 905 citations

The magnitude of the global problem of diarrhoeal disease: a ten-year update.

1992 • 796 citations

Maternal education and child survival in developing countries: The search for pathways of influence

1988 • 773 citations

Urban agriculture: food, jobs and sustainable cities

1997 • 711 citations

The nutrition transition and its health implications in lower-income countries

1998 • 708 citations

Effectiveness of vitamin A supplementation in the control of young child morbidity and mortality in developing countries

1992 • 542 citations

Adjustment in Africa: Reforms, results, and the road ahead

1994 • 528 citations

Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: improving water supplies and excreta disposal facilities.

1985 • 468 citations

Free Markets and Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment

1994 • 419 citations

Growth in early childhood in developing countries.

1986 • 386 citations

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

2019 • 358 citations

Infant-Feeding Practices and Their Relationship With Diarrheal and Other Diseases in Huascar (Lima), Peru

1989 • 349 citations

Care and Nutrition: Concepts and Measurement

1997 • 345 citations

Urban agriculture for sustainable cities: using wastes and idle land and water bodies as resources

1992 • 338 citations

How does mother's schooling affect family health, nutrition, medical care usage, and household sanitation?

1987 • 317 citations

Are Coping Strategies a Cop Out?

1993 • 316 citations

THE IMPACT OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: WAGE EVIDENCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES*

1991 • 294 citations

Risk Factors for Pneumonia Among Children in a Brazilian Metropolitan Area

1994 • 251 citations

Urban Informal Employment and Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence

1996 • 238 citations

Alternative food security strategy: A household analysis of urban agriculture in Kampala

1995 • 232 citations

Crisis, Informalization and the Urban Informal Sector in Sub‐Saharan Africa

1995 • 228 citations

Urbanization and mental health in developing countries: A research role for social scientists, public health professionals and social psychiatrists

1994 • 218 citations

The World Health Report 1995--bridging the gaps.

1995 • 217 citations

Mortality from acute respiratory infections in children under 5 years of age: global estimates.

1986 • 206 citations

More evidence on nutrition demand

1984 • 206 citations

Household income and expenditure survey

1993 • 199 citations

Infant and child mortality

2016 • 195 citations

Parental education and child health: Intracountry evidence

1982 • 184 citations

INFANT FEEDING AND DEATHS DUE TO DIARRHEA

1989 • 176 citations

The urban informal sector in Central America: Household survey evidence

1996 • 171 citations

Public Spending and the Poor

1997 • 167 citations

Acute Respiratory Infections

1991 • 166 citations

Women's work and child nutrition in the Third World

1988 • 164 citations

The Decision to Breastfeed

1994 • 160 citations

Does urban agriculture help prevent malnutrition? Evidence from Kampala

1998 • 159 citations

The Process of Urbanization in Africa (From the Origins to the Beginning of Independence)

1991 • 152 citations

Wood-Burning Stoves and Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in American Indian Children

1990 • 152 citations

Commercialization of Agriculture Under Population Pressure: Effects on Production, Consumption, and Nutrition in Rwanda

1991 • 148 citations

Early Child Development: Investing in the Future

1996 • 143 citations

Underlying and proximate determinants of child health: the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Study.

1991 • 141 citations

The distribution of income and expenditure within the household

1993 • 138 citations

Opportunity Foregone: Education in Brazil.

1996 • 134 citations

The Nutrition CRSP: What Is Marginal Malnutrition, and Does It Affect Human Function?

2009 • 134 citations

The impact on health urban environments

1993 • 133 citations

Malnutrition and Overcrowding/Intensive Exposure in Severe Measles Infection: Review of Community Studies

1988 • 125 citations

Risk factors for childhood pneumonia among the urban poor in Fortaleza, Brazil: a case--control study.

1996 • 124 citations

Street Foods: Urban Food and Employment in Developing Countries

1997 • 124 citations

Prevalence of chronic bronchitis in a rural community of the Hill Region of Nepal.

1984 • 122 citations

On the determinants of nutrition in Mozambique: The importance of age-specific effects

1997 • 122 citations

Female autonomy and child nutritional status: The extended-family residential unit in Amman, Jordan

1990 • 121 citations

Maternal employment, child care, and nutritional status of 12–18-month-old children in Managua, Nicaragua

1998 • 114 citations

Intra-urban differentials in child health

1995 • 111 citations

A City of Farmers: Informal Urban Agriculture on the Open Spaces of Nairobi, Kenya

1994 • 107 citations

Indoor Woodsmoke Pollution Causing Lower Respiratory Disease in Children

1990 • 107 citations

Mothers' Personal and Domestic Hygiene and Diarrhoea Incidence in Young Children in Rural Bangladesh

1989 • 100 citations

Life in a dual system revisited: Urban-rural ties in Enugu, Nigeria, 1961–87

1991 • 99 citations

Urban Agriculture: Research Questions and Zambian Evidence

1988 • 95 citations

Urban food insecurity and malnutrition in developing countries: trends, policies, and research implications

1993 • 94 citations

In the Shadow of the City: Community Health and the Urban Poor

1989 • 92 citations

The Mediating Effect of Maternal Nutrition Knowledge on the Association between Maternal Schooling and Child Nutritional Status in Lesotho

1992 • 92 citations

Gender and Population in the Adjustment of African Economies: Planning for Change

1991 • 92 citations

Nutrition and health in low income urban areas of the third world†

1977 • 90 citations

Urbanization and health in developing countries.

1991 • 89 citations

Income sources of malnourished people in rural areas: Microlevel information and policy implications

1991 • 87 citations

Zinc and diarrhea

1992 • 86 citations

Smoke-filled rooms and lower respiratory disease in infants.

1982 • 85 citations

The rural linkages of urban households in Durban, South Africa

1998 • 84 citations

Birthweight and Infant Mortality: A Longitudinal Study of 5914 Brazilian Children

1987 • 84 citations

The Effect of the Value of Time on Food Consumption Patterns in Developing Countries: Evidence from Sri Lanka

1986 • 83 citations

How Can Safety Nets Do More with Less? General Issues with Some Evidence from Southern Africa

1996 • 82 citations

Urban Agriculture: Who Cultivates and why? a Case-Study of Lusaka, Zambia

1985 • 82 citations

Child fostering and children's nutritional outcomes in rural mali: the role of female status in directing child transfers

1995 • 78 citations

Nutrition and Urbanization (Part 2): Urbanization and Nutrition in Low-Income Countries

1988 • 76 citations

Is income the only constraint on child nutrition in rural Bangladesh?

1980 • 76 citations

Vitamin B-6 status of Egyptian mothers: relation to infant behavior and maternal-infant interactions

1990 • 74 citations

Urban Health in Developing Countries

2014 • 74 citations

Immunization in urban areas: issues and strategies.

1994 • 71 citations

Evaluation of Factors Influencing Vaccine Uptake in Mozambique

1989 • 70 citations

Shift to non-traditional grains in the diets of East and West Africa: role of women's opportunity cost of time

1994 • 69 citations

Health and peri-urban natural resource production

1998 • 67 citations

Absorption of vitamin A in children with ascariasis.

1975 • 67 citations

Urban Agriculture in Kenya

1993 • 67 citations

[Maternal and perinatal health].

1991 • 65 citations

A review of environmental health impacts in developing country cities

1992 • 65 citations

Women, work, and child welfare in the Third World

1990 • 62 citations

Malnutrition and Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Filipino Children

1990 • 61 citations

Urban Food Distribution in Asia and Africa

1991 • 59 citations

World Health Report 1995

1995 • 53 citations

A City of Farmers: Informal Urban Agriculture in the Open Spaces of Nairobi

1991 • 52 citations

Domestic smoke pollution and respiratory function in rural Nepal.

1985 • 52 citations

Street food vending in Latin America.

1994 • 49 citations

Epidemic cholera in Guatemala, 1993: transmission of a newly introduced epidemic strain by street vendors

1996 • 48 citations

The Relationship between Energy Intake and Diarrhoeal Disease in Their Effects on Child Growth: Biological Model, Evidence, and Implications for Public Health Policy

1992 • 48 citations

Impact of a pilot acute respiratory infection (ARI) control programme in a rural community of the hill region of Nepal

1989 • 47 citations

Enhancing Human Potential in Guatemalan Adults Through Improved Nutrition in Early Childhood

1993 • 47 citations

Reducing urban poverty; some lessons from experience

1998 • 45 citations

Maternal Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice as Predictors of Diarrhoeal Disease in Young Children

1983 • 44 citations

Urbanization and health in developing countries: a challenge for health for all.

1991 • 44 citations

Nutrition-related diseases in Southern Africa: With special reference to urban African populations in transition

1995 • 44 citations

The relative validity of the repeated 24 h recall for estimating energy and selected nutrient intakes of rural Ghanaian children.

1994 • 44 citations

Households headed by women and urban poverty in Brazil.

1983 • 43 citations

Urban food production : evolution, official support and significance

1994 • 43 citations

Urban poverty in the context of structural adjustment : recent evidence and policy responses

1993 • 43 citations

The impact of adult ill-health on household income and nutrition in Khulna, Bangladesh.

1993 • 41 citations

Contribution of Street Foods to Nutrient Intakes by Nigerian Adolescents

1995 • 41 citations

Urban farming in Africa : the case of Kampala, Uganda

1992 • 40 citations

Highest and best use?

1996 • 39 citations

Strategies for meeting basic food needs in Harare.

1992 • 39 citations

Spotlight on the Cities: Improving Urban Health in Developing Countries

1989 • 39 citations

Beyond Urban Bias in Africa

1994 • 38 citations

Cities of hunger: Urban malnutrition in developing countries

1988 • 38 citations

Maize milling, market reform and urban food security: The case of Zimbabwe

1993 • 35 citations

9. Water and Sanitation: Health and Nutrition Benefits to Children

2020 • 34 citations

Diarrhoeal disease morbidity in children below 5 years in urban slums of Delhi.

1986 • 33 citations

The quantity and quality of breast milk : report on the WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-feeding

1985 • 32 citations

Maternal work for earnings and childrens nutritional status in urban Guatemala

1989 • 30 citations

Social Stress and Mental Health: A Social-Psychiatric Field Study of Calcutta.

1992 • 28 citations

Effects of rapid urbanization on child behaviour and health in a part of Khartoum, Sudan—II. Psycho-social influences on behaviour

1986 • 28 citations

Haitian street foods and their nutritional contribution to dietary intake

1988 • 28 citations

Wages, Schooling and Background: Investments in Men and Women in Urban Brazil

1991 • 28 citations

Urban food production and the cooking fuel situation in urban Kenya. National report: results of a 1985 national survey.

1987 • 26 citations

Is the locus of poverty changing?

1995 • 26 citations

Gender, Intrafamily Allocation of Resources and Child Schooling in South India

1992 • 23 citations

Impacts of devaluation on Senegalese households: policy implications

1995 • 22 citations

Job Creation Needs in Third World Cities

1993 • 21 citations

Nutrition policy and the urban poor in developing countries

1990 • 20 citations

Five criteria for choosing among poverty programs

1993 • 20 citations

Cholera in metropolitan Manila: foodborne transmission via street vendors.

1994 • 20 citations

Urbanization and Hunger in the Cities

1987 • 19 citations

Household Resource Allocation in the Côte d’Ivoire: Inferences from Expenditure Data

1994 • 18 citations

The use of breast milk substitutes in developing countries: the impact of women's employment.

1996 • 17 citations

Economía Política de los Sistemas Alimentarios en América Latina

1994 • 17 citations

The informal food economy in a peripheral urban district

1995 • 17 citations

Urban Nutrition in Developing Countries: Some Lessons to Learn

1989 • 17 citations

Feeding Infants in Four Societies

1989 • 16 citations

Dietary fibre, what it is and how it is measured.

1994 • 16 citations

The nutrition profile of the slum dwellers: A comparison with the rural poor

1991 • 15 citations

The potential impact of AIDS on population and economic growth rates

1997 • 15 citations

Review of early childhood policy and programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

1997 • 15 citations

And the cupboard was bare: food security and food policy for the urban poor

1992 • 14 citations

How the very poor survive -the impact of hyper-inflationary crisis on low-income urban households in Buenos Aires/Argentina

1994 • 13 citations

Children in the Tropics

1956 • 13 citations

Indian Urban Poverty:Where are the Levers for its Effective Alleviation?

1997 • 13 citations

Body iron reserves of rural and urban Guatemalan women of reproductive age.

1984 • 13 citations

Nutrition-related Health Consequences of Urbanization

1987 • 13 citations

Urban Health in the Third World: A Guide to the Literature

1993 • 12 citations

Basic Food Consumption in North-East Brazil: Effects of Income, Price, and Family Size in Metropolitan and Rural Areas

1988 • 12 citations

Vitamin A concentration in children with giardiasis.

1980 • 11 citations

Urban food subsidies in the context of adjustment

1991 • 11 citations

The use of COSAS in the analysis of vaccination coverage in urban, peri-urban and rural populations in the Edendale/Vulindlela district of KwaZulu.

1992 • 11 citations

Rural-urban differences in child care and breastfeeding behaviour in southeastern Nigeria

1980 • 10 citations

The Egyptian National Nutrition Survey, 1978.

1983 • 10 citations

Structural adjustment and food security in Uganda

1985 • 9 citations

Nutritional Management of Diarrhoea

1995 • 9 citations

Diferencias urbano-rurales en la ingesta de alimentos de familias pobres de Guatemala

1991 • 8 citations

Agricultural and Food Marketing in Developing Countries

1994 • 8 citations

Eating on the Run

1987 • 8 citations

Early protein-calorie malnutrition in slum areas of Bangkok Municipality, 1970-71.

1974 • 8 citations

Trends in Urban and Rural Food Consumption and Implications for Food Policies in Tunisia

1987 • 8 citations

Urban-Rural Comparisons of Nutrition Status in the Third World

1992 • 7 citations

Agricultural employment, wage earnings and nutritional status of teenage rural Hyderabad boys.

1980 • 7 citations

A Study of the Pattern of Clinical Protein Energy Malnutrition in Accra from 1970 to 1978

1981 • 6 citations

Urban Africa in macroeconomic and microeconomic perspective : issues and options

1986 • 6 citations

Environnement urbain et santé

1975 • 5 citations

Haematological Status of Preschool and School-Age Children in Urban and Rural Areas of Guatemala

1995 • 5 citations

Changing Patterns of Consumption Underlying Changes in Trade and Agricultural Development

1986 • 5 citations

Features and Determinants of Urban Health Status

2014 • 4 citations

Urbanization and Nutrition in the Third World. An annotated bibliography. Herausgegeben von B. Schürch und A.‐M. Favre. 160 Seiten. Nestlé Foundation for the Study of Problems of Nutrition in the World. Lausanne 1985

1986 • 3 citations

Developing a Research and Action Agenda for Examining Urbanization and Caregiving: Examples from Southern and Eastern Africa

1997 • 3 citations

Cited By (0)

Loading...