Food and ecological sustainability in ensuring public security

Ensuring food and nutrition security

Ensuring that everyone in the world has access to enough nutritious food should be at the forefront of the post-2015 development discussions, as recently emphasized by the Secretary-General through the launch of the Zero Hunger Challenge.1 The present chapter highlights the changes needed in the food system to ensure food and nutrition security by 2050 and the challenges involved, given that ma...

Addressing China’s grand challenge of achieving food security while ensuring environmental sustainability

China's increasingly urbanized and wealthy population is driving a growing and changing demand for food, which might not be met without significant increase in agricultural productivity and sustainable use of natural resources. Given the past relationship between lack of access to affordable food and political instability, food security has to be given a high priority on national political agen...

Food security and food sustainability: reformulating the debate

The notion of food security has an important history as a key concept for 20th-century policymakers. Two overarching perspectives on food security are identified. One centred on raising production as the core answer to under-consumption and hunger. The other is an emerging perspective, more social and ecological, accepting the need to address a complex array of problems, not just production. Th...

The Food Security, Sustainability, Public Health and Animal Welfare Implications of Livestock Production

Importance of Animals in Agricultural Sustainability and Food Security.

A conservative projection shows the world's population growing by 32% (to 9.5 billion) by 2050 and 53% (to 11 billion) by 2100 compared with its current level of 7.2 billion. Because most arable land worldwide is already in use, and water and energy also are limiting, increased production of food will require a substantial increase in efficiency. In this article, we highlight the importance of ...