Food security, food safety & healthy nutrition: are they compatible?

Food safety must accompany food and nutrition security.

1910 www.thelancet.com Vol 384 November 29, 2014 Despite progress in reducing undernutrition, our planet’s population is still aff ected by many food-related challenges, including vitamin and mineral defi ciencies, obesity, and non-communicable diseases. These challenges are fuelled, in part, by cheap, convenient, and highly-processed foods that are appealing to the taste. But food threats do n...

nutrition security versus food security

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Food and Nutrition Security

3.3.3 The country adopted multi-sectoral, multipronged strategy to combat these problems and to improve the nutritional status of the population. Article 47 of the Constitution of India states that "the State shall regard raising the level of nutrition and standard of living of its people and improvement in public health among its primary duties". Successive Five-Year Plans laid down the polici...

Food and Nutrition Security

HIV, FOOD SECURITY and NUTRITION

Often neglected, food security1 and nutrition2 are critical for individuals, households and communities affected by HIV. Lack of food security and poor nutritional status may hasten progression to AIDS-related illnesses,3−5undermine adherence and response to antiretroviral therapy, and exacerbate socioeconomic impacts of the virus. HIV infection itself undermines food security and nutrition by ...