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...

Achieving food and nutrition security ending hunger is a complex multi-faceted global challenge, which requires urgent attention, particularly in Africa. To eliminate hunger, the continent needs to transition new sustainable, inclusive, resilient systems that deliver nutritious healthy planet for all. This paper discusses challenges opportunities highlighted during “Food Systems Transformation ...

Poor diets are responsible for more of the global burden disease than sex, drugs, alcohol, and tobacco combined. Without good health, food security, nutrition, development is unsustainable. How grown, distributed, processed, marketed, sold determines which foods available, affordable, acceptable within local cultural context. These factors guide choices, influencing quality people’s diets, henc...

Abstract During the past decade, there has been growing awareness of importance food safety in developing countries. WHO estimates for 2010 show that burden illness from worldwide is comparable to malaria and tuberculosis. Furthermore, dietary transition associated market transformation will alter possibly increase risks. Agricultural economic research moved beyond question how standards consti...

This article analyzes the development and organization of United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which is being convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres in late 2021. Although few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, it has become clear instead an effort a powerful alliance multinational corporations, philanthropies, export-oriented countries to subver...