Specialization in food production affects global food security and food systems sustainability

Mycotoxins, a Major Challenge in Global Food Security

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...

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...

Food Sustainability, Security, and Effects of Global Change

The obvious but often neglected goal of food production and manufacture is to provide mankind with ample food supplies and adequate nutrition to allow each person not only to survive but also to reach their full intellectual and physical potential (Weiler et al., 2006). However, in practice the two most important drivers of food production are optimal yield and minimum cost in order to achieve ...

Big Food, Food Systems, and Global Health

1 Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, 4 Department of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Unite...