scholarly journals Food security and sustainability: can one exist without the other?

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 2293-2302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliot M Berry ◽  
Sandro Dernini ◽  
Barbara Burlingame ◽  
Alexandre Meybeck ◽  
Piero Conforti
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Fifth Dimension ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition ◽  
World Food Security ◽  
Global Food

AbstractObjectiveTo position the concept of sustainability within the context of food security.DesignAn overview of the interrelationships between food security and sustainability based on a non-systematic literature review and informed discussions based principally on a quasi-historical approach from meetings and reports.SettingInternational and global food security and nutrition.ResultsThe Rome Declaration on World Food Security in 1996 defined its three basic dimensions as: availability, accessibility and utilization, with a focus on nutritional well-being. It also stressed the importance of sustainable management of natural resources and the elimination of unsustainable patterns of food consumption and production. In 2009, at the World Summit on Food Security, the concept of stability/vulnerability was added as the short-term time indicator of the ability of food systems to withstand shocks, whether natural or man-made, as part of the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security. More recently, intergovernmental processes have emphasized the importance of sustainability to preserve the environment, natural resources and agro-ecosystems (and thus the overlying social system), as well as the importance of food security as part of sustainability and vice versa.ConclusionsSustainability should be considered as part of the long-term time dimension in the assessment of food security. From such a perspective the concept of sustainable diets can play a key role as a goal and a way of maintaining nutritional well-being and health, while ensuring the sustainability for future food security. Without integrating sustainability as an explicit (fifth?) dimension of food security, today’s policies and programmes could become the very cause of increased food insecurity in the future.

Food for thought: food systems, livestock futures and animal health

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
Angela Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Futures Research ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Fundamental Misunderstanding ◽  
And Control ◽  
Global Food

AbstractGlobal food security, livestock production and animal health are inextricably bound. However, our focus on the future tends to disaggregate food and health into largely separate domains. Indeed, much foresight work is either food systems or health-based with little overlap in terms of predictions or narratives. Work on animal health is no exception. Part of the problem is the fundamental misunderstanding of the role, nature and impact of the modern futures tool kit. Here, I outline three key issues in futures research ranging from methodological confusion over the application of scenarios to the failure to effectively integrate multiple methodologies to the gap between the need for more evidence and power and control over futures processes. At its core, however, a better understanding of the narrative and worldview framing much of the futures work in animal health is required to enhance the value and impact of such exercises.

scholarly journals Alternative pathways to food security and nutrition – water predicaments and human behavior

Water Policy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 871-884 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Lundqvist ◽  
Olcay Unver
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Alternative Pathways ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition ◽  
Consumer Habits

Abstract Remarkable successes and new challenges to cope with requirements for food and water are analyzed. Trends in demography, food preferences and consumer habits are scrutinized together with their implications for human well-being and natural resources. Making best use of variable and limited water resources presumes proper management and efficient technologies, but also a worthwhile use of goods and services produced, for example, food. Reduction of food losses and waste, and reversing trends in overweight and obesity promise significant water savings. Transformations of food systems in this direction provide opportunities to meet human nutrient and food requirements in a resource-effective manner. In line with the principle of the Sustainable Development Goals, ‘no-one should be left behind’, governments, producers and consumers must be involved in efforts to ensure food security and nutrition. Naturally, farmers are major actors in food systems. The business community is showing a commitment to contribute to food security and nutrition and to reduce water risks. Consumers are dynamic drivers as well as beneficiaries, victims and culprits in water and food systems and need to internalize resource-use efficiency in their behavior, for example, by reducing food waste and aiming for better nutrition and sustainable diets.

scholarly journals Seafood in Food Security: A Call for Bridging the Terrestrial-Aquatic Divide

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacia Stetkiewicz ◽  
Rachel A. Norman ◽  
Edward Hugh Allison ◽  
Neil L. Andrew ◽  
Gulshan Ara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Plant Production ◽  
Relative Role ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Global Food

The contribution of seafood to global food security is being increasingly highlighted in policy. However, the extent to which such claims are supported in the current food security literature is unclear. This review assesses the extent to which seafood is represented in the recent food security literature, both individually and from a food systems perspective, in combination with terrestrially-based production systems. The results demonstrate that seafood remains under-researched compared to the role of terrestrial animal and plant production in food security. Furthermore, seafood and terrestrial production remain siloed, with very few papers addressing the combined contribution or relations between terrestrial and aquatic systems. We conclude that far more attention is needed to the specific and relative role of seafood in global food security and call for the integration of seafood in a wider interdisciplinary approach to global food system research.

scholarly journals Predictive Insights for Improving the Resilience of Global Food Security Using Artificial Intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 6272
Author(s):  
Meng-Leong How ◽  
Yong Jiet Chan ◽  
Sin-Mei Cheah
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Probabilistic Reasoning ◽  
Probabilistic Approach ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Food Quality And Safety ◽  
Global Food

Unabated pressures on food systems affect food security on a global scale. A human-centric artificial intelligence-based probabilistic approach is used in this paper to perform a unified analysis of data from the Global Food Security Index (GFSI). The significance of this intuitive probabilistic reasoning approach for predictive forecasting lies in its simplicity and user-friendliness to people who may not be trained in classical computer science or in software programming. In this approach, predictive modeling using a counterfactual probabilistic reasoning analysis of the GFSI dataset can be utilized to reveal the interplay and tensions between the variables that underlie food affordability, food availability, food quality and safety, and the resilience of natural resources. Exemplars are provided in this paper to illustrate how computational simulations can be used to produce forecasts of good and bad conditions in food security using multi-variant optimizations. The forecast of these future scenarios is useful for informing policy makers and stakeholders across domain verticals, so they can make decisions that are favorable to global food security.

WORLD FOOD SECURITY IN COVID-19 CONDITIONS – PROSPECTS FOR COOPERATION OF ISRAEL AND RUSSIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Cohen-Gath K. Cohen-Gath K. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Food Production ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World Food ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
The World ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
World Food Security ◽  
Global Food

In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing danger of the global economic crisis, the world economy has actually failed to ensure the global food security. The number of the world’s inhabitants at risk has increased by tens of millions after the pandemic. The task of each country is to make every eff ort to eliminate the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and to ensure maximum food security for its citizens. Israel has recently made signifi cant achievements in the fi eld of innovative agriculture, so it off ers to implement its eff ective techniques on a wide scale. Cooperation between Israel and Russia, as well as mutual assistance in food production can make a signifi cant contribution to the solving strategies of the global food problem.

scholarly journals FRAMING GM CROPS AS A SOLUTION FOR GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (9SE) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
P.B Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Fruit Storage ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Global Food

Genetically Modified organisms (GMOs) are a tool of solution in helping to tackle the challenge of global food security for ever growing population. With global population expected to grow by 40% in the next few decades, agriculture will need to become more productive and more sustainable in order to keep pace with rapidly increasing demands. The current biotechnology permits to alter the genetic makeup of living organisms to produce much quicker and beneficial results. The present study is aimed to evaluate the economic, environmental and nutritive benefits of transgenic crops. We have reviewed many articles from various journals, blogs and media clips related to the subject. Results indicate that the use of GMOs have many potential benefits that include increased crop production, improved nutrition, and drought tolerance, reduced fertilizers and pesticides, better environmental condition, improved economic benefits and improvement in fruit storage. Conversely, there are few concerns about possible unpredicted adverse health effects, environmental damage, gene pollution and business exploitation. Results also indicate the towering costs and uncertainty about the guidelines of GMOs have slowed the rate of innovation of new qualities and prevented set ups and major corporate sectors from developing many second-generation varieties to facilitate the improvement of our well-being.

scholarly journals Global Food Security, Contributions from Sustainable Potato Agri-Food Systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Devaux ◽  
Jean-Pierre Goffart ◽  
Athanasios Petsakos ◽  
Peter Kromann ◽  
Marcel Gatto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Global Food

Four Proposals for a Sane Global Food Order

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
World Food ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
The Future ◽  
World Food Security ◽  
Food Order ◽  
Global Food

The chapter discusses that the global food security in the eighties presented a sorry picture: a billion hungry people, a precarious system of world food security, and even growing imbalances in the future. An end of global hunger requires bold political and economic actions. For Haq, a system of world food security requires action at the global, national and people level. In this paper, he lays out four proposals on which a new structure of world food security can be built for nations and people.

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