Food security: Eating globally

Food Security and Economic Growth

T  his study aimed to examine the relationship between food security, health and economic growth. These three components together form the vertices of a triangle. How much does food security strategies in a country bring more health to its people? Is the  healthy population richer? What is the impact of health on income, and to what extent are income variation am...

nutrition security versus food security

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Food Security and Food Sovereignty

This discussion paper explores conceptualisations of food security produced by the World Trade Organisation and the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations and examines a responsive policy framework food sovereignty – championed by the farming and peasant movement Via Campesina. Conflict over the use and appropriation of plant genetic resources is examined to highlight tensions...

Eating medicine: food as pharmacology.

Eating Well (When You Can): Food Security Among Stateside Puerto Ricans

The percentage of food secure Puerto Rican households has consistently been the lowest, even when compared to Hispanics overall. Figure 1 presents trends in food security among different racial/ethnic groups in the US, from 2005 through 2014. The figure displays CPS-FSS data grouped across three year groups, denoting the situation before, during and after the Great Recession of 2008, providing ...