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11. IgE sensitization against food allergens : Natural history, relation to airway inflammation and asthma
Sammanfattning : Background: According to recent studies in children, IgE sensitization not only against perennial allergens, but also against food allergens, is related to asthma risk and increased airway inflammation. During the last decade, a new technique for IgE determination based on allergen components has become available, but its use in epidemiological studies has been limited. LÄS MER
12. Assessment of local food distribution : challenges and possibilities for logistics development
Sammanfattning : There is increasing interest in local food, as consumers feel confidence in such food. Local food has good opportunities to fulfil quality aspects/requirements of transparency and traceability in the supply chain due to the possibilities for direct interaction between producers and consumers. LÄS MER
13. Is it local? : A study about the social production of local and regional foods and goods
Sammanfattning : Local and regional products are often attributed positive qualities, such as a potential for developing Europe’s rural regions economically and reconnecting producers and consumers in more sustainable food systems. However, they are broad categories that include many different understandings. LÄS MER
14. Food for Naught : The politics of food in agricultural modernization for African smallholder food security
Sammanfattning : Why is there hunger in sub-Saharan Africa? What forces drive the global food system? What is the global food system? To approach these questions, this study investigates power and politics in food, in its production and in its organization. Proceeding from a critical realist approach, focus of this study is on the challenge of African smallholder food insecurity and how it is presented as part of a dominant discourse of agricultural modernization. LÄS MER
15. Food Service and Nutritional Care in Swedish Elderly Care : The Progress of National Actions and their Local Interpretations
Sammanfattning : The main aim of this thesis is to study local level outcomes regarding food service and nutritional care in Swedish elderly care in relation to the progress of national actions. Study I compared results from a repeated national survey using a questionnaire investigating the general structure and organisation of food service in elderly care. LÄS MER