Overview
Community feeding centers are organized facilities or programs that provide nutritious meals or therapeutic foods to populations at risk of hunger and malnutrition, often targeting young children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and other vulnerable groups. They serve as platforms for delivering nutritional support, monitoring growth and nutritional status, and offering education and counseling, and they are frequently central to responses to food insecurity, undernutrition, and emergencies. By concentrating resources and expertise, such centers can improve dietary intake, prevent and treat conditions like severe acute malnutrition, and contribute to better health outcomes in communities where access to adequate food is limited. Within the journal's nutrition scope, community feeding centers connect to broader efforts in public-health nutrition, complementary feeding, and the management of malnutrition. Research relevant to this scope includes work on the safety, tolerability, efficacy, and logistics of administering therapeutic feeds to children with severe acute malnutrition and on the domiciliary treatment of severe acute malnutrition, both of which address how nutritional interventions are delivered to children most in need. By improving the reach and effectiveness of feeding interventions, this research supports strategies to reduce malnutrition. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to public-health nutrition, malnutrition management, and nutritional interventions.
Research published in this journal
7 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The Nutrition Route following Esophagectomy
Common Complementary Feeding Practices Among Under-Five Children: The Case of Zambia
Safety, Tolerability, Efficacy and Logistics of Administration of Three Types of Therapeutic Feeds to Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)
Domiciliary Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition
Developing Cellular & Molecular Biomarkers for Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Probiotic Bacteria in Fermented Foods
How this research is being cited
The 7 articles above have been cited 6 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2022 · Archive of Food and Nutritional Science
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2022 · Archives of Food and Nutritional Science
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I. Kundan et al. · 2021 · BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
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2021 · BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Community Feeding Centers, linking to each citing work.