Why Place-Based Food Systems? Food Security in a Chaotic World

Why food in health security (FIHS)?

Health is intrinsic to human security (HumS) although it is somewhat anthropocentric and about our own psychosocial and biomedical status more than various external threats. The 1994 United Nations Development Program definition of HumS includes economic, food, environmental, personal, community and political security with freedom from fear and want. Environmental factors are critical for healt...

Chaotic dynamics in food web systems

It is a long-standing debate among ecologists whether chaotic dynamics are likely to occur in food web systems. Simple mathematical models predict frequent chaotic dynamics for food webs of relatively low complexity suggesting that the long-term dynamics of natural populations could be essentially unpredictable. This result is at odds with observations from the field where chaos appears to be r...

Mycotoxins, a Major Challenge in Global 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...

A Food Retail-Based Intervention on Food Security and Consumption

The effect of the built environment on diet (and ensuing health outcomes) is less understood than the effect of diet on obesity. Natural experiments are increasingly advocated in place of cross-sectional studies unable to suggest causality. The central research question of this paper, therefore, asks whether a neighborhood-level food retail intervention will affect dietary habits or food securi...