Uncovering the often invisible human side of our food: Food systems employ an estimated 1.23 billion people globally, and a majority of those jobs are informal, unlicensed, unregistered, or otherwise outside the reach of formal regulation. In low-income and middle-income countries especially, informal vendors are a linchpin of food security and livelihoods for over a billion people. 

A new systematic scoping review in Food Policy looked across 64 countries to better understand how informality is defined and understood, and what this means for policies and food security. 

Vaccine-hesitant adults were more likely to consider getting a COVID-19 vaccine when public health messages acknowledged distrust of government and affirmed values such as personal liberty, a new study found.

Researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology at the University of Malaga have led an international scientific team that has studied how a traumatic brain injury caused by a severe blow to the head conditions the brain’s long-term response to subsequent stress situations.