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Racial disparities in food insecurity for high- and low-income households

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: This cross-sectional study builds on prior evidence by documenting intersectional disparities in food insecurity persistent over 23 years despite multiple intervening policy and macroeconomic changes. As in a prior cross-sectional study, racial disparities were smaller among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-participating households than nonparticipating households.

Journal: JAMA Health Forum

Researchers find that landowner trust, experience influence feral hog management

University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Trust in others and prior experience with feral hogs were significant factors in whether landowners would commit effort and dollars to controlling feral hogs, two studies have found. Nana Tian is a forest economics researcher for the Arkansas Forest Resources Center who studies human dimensions and economic issues in natural resource management. When it comes to feral hogs, her research informs education and management plans. Tian is the corresponding author of two studies that address these issues: “Private Landowners’ Perspectives on Managing Feral Swine in Arkansas, Louisiana, and East Texas,” published in the Journal of Wildlife Management and “Private Landowners’ Willingness to Pay for Managing Feral Swine in the West Gulf Region,” published in the Journal of Sustainability Research.

Journal: Journal of Wildlife Management

The double-helix logic of curriculum: A new theory for education in the age of AI

ECNU Review of Education
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As artificial intelligence reshapes cognitive work, curriculum theory faces a renewed challenge: how to sustain shared foundations while enabling learner differentiation. In a new article in ECNU Review of Education, Ruojun Zhong and Yong Zhao introduce the Double-Helix Logic of Curriculum, a structural theory that reconceptualizes universality and personalization as co-evolving strands. The theory introduces a new structural approach to curriculum in the age of artificial intelligence.

Journal: ECNU Review of Education

New research warns charities against ‘AI shortcut’ to empathy

University of East Anglia
Reports and Proceedings

A new report from the University of East Anglia (UEA) warns that the potential reputational damage of charities using AI-generated images in their campaigns is more complex than many organisations realise.

Carbon markets risk penalizing First Nations stewardship

RMIT University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Experts say climate finance systems built on good intentions are backfiring because they fail to recognise the value of First Nations stewardship.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

Study confirms food fortification is highly cost-effective in fighting hidden hunger across 63 countries

Cochrane
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A comprehensive new systematic review published in The Journal of Nutrition provides the latest evidence that large-scale food fortification is a highly cost-effective intervention for reducing global malnutrition.

Journal: Journal of Nutrition
Funder: United States Agency for International Development

Zara, Balay, and Idealista are the most innovative Spanish companies

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Business Announcement

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in collaboration with Neovantas, has presented the results of the 4th edition of the Spanish Innovation Index (ÍEI, for its Spanish initials), which highlights the most innovative brands in the Spanish market in 2025, according to consumers. This year, Ikea, Toyota, Apple, Zara, Balay, and Idealista were recognized for leading the ranking.

Most workers embrace AI, but 84% worry about the risks, study says

Taylor & Francis Group
Book Announcement

Workers think that Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes them more efficient, but many don’t trust it.

Drug-related homicides increased in Mexico after NAFTA

University of Cologne
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Following the implementation of the NAFTA free trade agreement, more people lost their lives in violence along key drug trafficking routes to the USA than in previous years / publication in the ‘Journal of Development Economics’

Journal: Journal of Development Economics

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