Parkia roxburghii, an underutilized tree bean for food, nutritional and regional climate security

Climate Effects on Food Security: An Overview

There are roughly 1 billion food insecure people in the world today, each having this status because food is unavailable to them, because it is unaffordable, or because they are too unhealthy to make use of it – or some combination of the three. Assessing the potential effects of climate change on food security requires understanding the underlying determinants of these three aspects of food se...

Climate change and food security.

Dynamic interactions between and within the biogeophysical and human environments lead to the production, processing, distribution, preparation and consumption of food, resulting in food systems that underpin food security. Food systems encompass food availability (production, distribution and exchange), food access (affordability, allocation and preference) and food utilization (nutritional an...

Food and nutritional security and public health.

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 24(7):1464-1465, jul, 2008 Food and Nutritional Security has become an increasingly important area of public policy in Brazil. In the tumultuous process of constructing national values and practices, it has come to have a direct impact on the political and institutional make-up of various sectors of government and society. Until the 1990s, the main forms of f...

Climate impacts on food security and nutrition

Climate risk and food security in Ethiopia: Analysis of climate impacts on food security and livelihoods Climate risk and food security in Ethiopia: Analysis of climate impacts on food security and livelihoods

The views expressed herein do not reflect the opinion of any of the organisations involved. This analysis is part of the Resilience Project Initiative coordinated by WFP's Office for Climate Change, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction. The Resilience Project is a collaborative effort between WFP, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and partners to strengthen the capacities of g...