How high frequency food diaries can transform understanding of food security

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...

How Food Industries Can Help in Preventing Childhood Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome?

How vulnerable is the nation's food supply? Linking food safety and food security.

This paper reviews the food safety regulatory apparatus in place today. It examines the system's strengths and vulnerabilities, particularly in light of the post-September 11 environment that includes the added threat of terrorism. The paper touches upon legislative and budgetary proposals aimed at improving food security, including the growing but debated interest in a single food safety agency.

How can EcoCity get its food?

Designing an ecologically responsible EcoCity of 550,000 people begins by confining it to 8500 ha, which spares surrounding land for farming and for Nature. Because an American diet requires 126,000 ha and even a survival diet needs more cropland than can be found inside its boundaries, EcoCity will cast shadows of farming outside its limits. EcoCitizens will cast wider shadows if farmers grow ...

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...