scholarly journals Microbial genetic resources in food security to face COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily Xochilt Zelaya-Molina ◽  
Sergio De los Santos-Villalobos ◽  
Ismael Fernando Chávez-Díaz ◽  
Liliana Carolina Córdova-Albores
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Genetic Resources ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Biological Unit ◽  
Scientific Paradigms ◽  
The Impact

<p>COVID-19 has had an impact on the regional and worldwide agricultural value chain, jeopardizing food security. It is time to reassess the approach of the agri-food sector and to consider that the food supply and plant health, as agrosystemic services, must depend on strategies with a low impact on productive and environmental assets. One strategy is the use and optimization of microbial genetic resources (MGR) related to agroecosystems as a source of balance, functionality, productivity, inhibition of the impact of pests and pathogens, and contribution to the profitability of agri-food activity. It is necessary to strengthen and develop regional agricultural systems that are dynamic, that mitigate damages to the environment and produce nutritional and nutraceutical foods that ensure human health. Agricultural sciences are undergoing changes in scientific paradigms that will benefit the agri-food sector if we are able to learn from the impacts of an extensive technological agriculture. Approaching agriculture from an agro-systemic point of view in which the crop-community is the functional biological unit of study and to preserve the MGR diversity are the greatest challenges to create sustainable and resilient strategies and technologies that contribute towards human health and help prevent risks during health crises such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.</p>

FOOD SECURITY IN RUSSIA IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-65
Author(s):  
Maria Polozhikhina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

Climate conditions remain one of the main risk factors for domestic agriculture, and the consequences of global climate change are ambiguous in terms of prospects for agricultural production in Russia. This paper analyzes the impact of climate change on the country’s food security from the point of view of its self-sufficiency in grain primarily. Specific conditions prevailing on the Crimean peninsula are also considered.

Restart tourism | build the future

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Marques
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Data Systems ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis viewpoint aims to explore the question: How can we restart and monitor the path towards the tourism of the future?Design/methodology/approachThis paper identifies the progress made at scientific, institutional, political and technological levels, and how it is possible to foresee that we will enter in a new era of tourism indicators.FindingsA significant body of literature clearly demonstrates that tourism cannot be viewed simply from an economic point of view as it has a great influence on sociocultural and environmental dimensions. The impact of tourism and how to ensure its long-term success has been invoked for the last few decades, leading to the direct consideration of sustainability indicators in a wide array of scientific publications. However, despite significant advances, the lack of funding, lack of support or interest from the political community, bureaucracies or lack of methodological guidance and of technical skills along the entire value chain pose clear challenges to the development and adoption of wide data systems to support sustainable tourism policies.Originality/valueThe paper sheds light on the Portuguese position regarding the recovery of the tourism sector in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also highlights the commitment to knowledge and monitoring of sustainability in tourism, articulated at international level, and how this is essential in order to make progress and to overcome the challenges facing the sector. At the same time, it demonstrates how fundamental it is to identify solutions to boost the potential of tourism as an economic, social, environmental and cultural phenomenon.

scholarly journals The contribution of small-scale, privately owned tropical aquaculture to food security and dietary diversity in Bolivia

Food Security ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Irwin ◽  
Mark S. Flaherty ◽  
Joachim Carolsfeld
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Fish Consumption ◽  
Dietary Diversity ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Dietary Preferences ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Tropical Aquaculture ◽  
The Impact

Abstract New aquaculture systems are emerging in new contexts around the world in part due to aquaculture’s perceived development benefits. However, linkages between aquaculture and food security in these systems are unclear. This study investigated the impact of emerging small-scale, business-oriented fish culture in central Bolivia on the food security and dietary diversity of aquaculture producers (n = 40) and workers (n = 26) in the value chain and compared them to local non-aquaculture farmers (n = 40). Three pathways were investigated: fish consumption, household income, and women’s participation. Food insecurity was widespread and did not vary in a statistically significant way between groups, but a trend toward greater food security amongst aquaculture producers was observed. Dietary diversity was highly homogenous, with the notable exception of high fish consumption amongst producers. Aquaculture was related to higher income, and income has a modest positive effect on food security for aquaculturists and non-aquaculture farmers, but not aquaculture value chain workers. Income did not have an effect on dietary diversity. Women’s involvement in aquaculture was correlated positively to productivity, profitability, and size of operation, while male-only aquaculture was negatively correlated to these. The value chain generated employment, especially for women, but average wages were higher for men. The research provides important insight into aquaculture-food security linkages by showing that the introduction of small-scale business-oriented aquaculture systems can provide nutritious products for regional consumption and can have positive effects on food security but is not sufficient to change local dietary preferences more broadly.

Effect of Global Warming on Food Security

2022 ◽  
pp. 115-133
Author(s):  
Arti Yadav ◽  
Badar Alam Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Indian Food ◽  
Agricultural Yields ◽  
The Impact

This chapter will aim to explicate the challenges posed by global warming or the climate change conditions on food security especially from the point of view of India. The negative impact of global warming has been seen, especially in developing economies, on the agricultural yields leading towards food insecurity. The four pillars of food security (i.e., availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability) are having an impact on climate change. The present study will begin by highlighting the concept of global warming. It will further provide an overview of the Indian food security system followed by the impact of global warming on the food security level in India. The study will also highlight the global warming and food security scenario in the present situation of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in India.

scholarly journals Bounded Futures: Growing a Boundary Foreknowledge Infrastructure in Food Security Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Cardon
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Security Research ◽  
Partial Equilibrium Model ◽  
The Future ◽  
Market Production ◽  
Rival Models ◽  
Lock In ◽  
The Impact

One preferred way of coping with the openness or indeterminacy of future is to elaborate ‘fictional expectations’ that enable action by defining possible outcomes. In this article, I propose to focus on the career of the impact foresight model to analyse how agro-economists combine imaginaries, narratives, data and calculative technologies addressing the long-term future of agriculture. Impact is a partial equilibrium model, which has become increasingly comprehensive. Its modular structure now enables it to interweave scenarios produced by other legitimate institutions, and to run simulations for a number of configurations of climate change and socio-economic evolutions. In this article, foresight models are taken to be material discursive devices. My argument is that their evolutions as technologies and the framing of the future they operate should not be analysed separately. Transforming radical uncertainty into controlled variability – magnitude of change, they explicitly endeavour to ‘bound’ uncertainty. But it is ‘bounded’ in a way that is highly dependent on the knowledge infrastructure upon which the models rely. Quantified modelling also makes it possible for economists to compare rival models and create alignments or negotiate zones of consensus, that is, a certain form of knowledge on the future. In the case under scrutiny, technological choices and data processing work contribute to reinforce a certain point of view – market, production and technology-oriented – on food security. Studying infrastructure and model design therefore allows a better understanding of path dependency and cognitive lock-in effects regarding the way the future is envisaged and narrated.

scholarly journals Trends in the consumption of fish and fish products in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Ryzhkova ◽  
V. M. Kruchinina
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Coastal Zones ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Fresh Fish ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Fisheries and aquaculture play an important role in ensuring food security, healthy nutrition and employment in various countries and on different continents. In Russia, the fishing industry is attractive for investment. At the same time, many important issues and problems remain unresolved in the industry. The search for promising directions for the development of the domestic fisheries sector is impossible without studying such an important indicator as the consumption of fish and its processed products. The purpose of this work is to study the indicators of fish consumption and products of its processing over a fairly long period from the middle of the last century to the present. Using the methods of scientific analysis, comparison, inductive and deductive, monographic, the following tasks were solved: the assessment of the results of the fishing industry in the Soviet period by indicators: catch, food production, import; the balance of resources for the period from 2011 to 2018 was considered.; a comparison of different consumer groups (population by age group, households in urban and rural areas) is made; fish and aquaculture production is considered from the point of view of food security, the cost indicators and opportunities of the processing industry are studied, the importance of cooperatives as an important infrastructure element, etc. The conclusions are as follows: despite official statistics, the actual consumption of fish per capita is a quarter less than the norm. For uninterrupted supply of fresh fish to the population, it is necessary: urgently allow the population of coastal zones to fish for personal consumption, develop cooperatives, integrate Centrosoyuz organizations in the value chain-catch/breeding-storage-marketing – sale; adopt a law on raw fish; study the experience of Scandinavian countries, in particular, Norway.

scholarly journals Comprehensive Safety Evaluation of the Chemicals with Human and Environmental Relevance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Floris ◽  
Federica Albanese ◽  
Ricardo Medda ◽  
Emilio Benfenati
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Chemical Exposure ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Predictive Methods ◽  
High Level ◽  
Pharmacologically Active ◽  
The Impact

Reducing the levels of toxic chemicals that cause adverse health and environmental impacts is a challenge for the international community. There is a need of a global strategy. Indeed, too often the problems associated to the exposure of chemical substances is recognized a posteriori, in the presence of consequences already observed. The prediction of the likely effects of chemical exposure on human health is based on classical tests with animals, which are time and money consuming, may deviate from an accurate prediction towards humans, and arises ethical concerns. Regulations are now considering the adoption of in silico (or computational) methods, which can be used for prioritizing substances according to the probability to be toxic for the biosphere. Several initiatives have prioritized chemicals, typically based according to some criteria, such as chemicals which may be endocrine disruptors, or persistent, bioaccumulative, or toxic (PBT). However, these initiatives focused on a certain range of adverse properties, and covered a certain number of substances only. We applied a set of largely validated and widely used predictive methods to large collections of chemicals: (i) to about 340,000 with a defined function, and (ii) to about 6 millions, which have been synthetized. The aim of this study is to quantify the putative impact of existing and future chemicals on towards human health, ecological and environment properties. The impact on the environment is the cause of major concern. This is the case of pesticides and hazardous, which is quite expected; however, also pharmacologically active candidate compounds of natural origin may have a high level of ecotoxicity. Pesticides and hazardous are also the categories of higher concern for humans, followed by pharmaceuticals. The pesticides and the hazardous are the categories of higher concern also on the environmental point of view. The results of our analysis could be the basis for the identification of new safety rules.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND ITS IMPACT FOR FOOD SECURITY

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-16
Author(s):  
A.K. Daribayeva ◽  
F. Shulenbaeva ◽  
A. Moldakhmetov ◽  
А.К. Дарибаева ◽  
Ф.А. Шуленбаева ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
National Level ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Impact

В статье раскрыта важность продовольственной безопасности с учетом точки зрения отечественных авторов. Предложены пути обеспечения продовольственной безопасности в стране за счет эффективного использования экономического потенциала страны в сельскохозяйственном производстве. Рассмотрены тенценции по сокращению миграционных потоков между развитыми странами мира, проблемы, возникшие в сельскохозяйственном производстве в условиях пандемии. Авторами проанализированы процессы сокращнения возможностей использования дешевой рабочей силы мигрирующего населения. Проведен анализ влияния пандемии на сельскохозяйственное производство нашей страны. Изучены тенденции развития сельскохозяйственного производства на мировом и национальном уровне. Выявлены проблемы зависимости от импорта на рынке реализации готовой продукции отрасли пищевой переработки сельскохозяйственного производства. В этой связи произведено переосмысление важности и необходимости сохранения, защиты продовольствененной безопасности, повышенияэффективностисельскохозяйственного производства республики. Изучен агропродовольственный рынок страны путём проведения анализа уровня самообеспечения зерном. Выявлено, что на зерновые культуры приходится около 69,1% всей площади посевов. Рассмотрен комплекс мероприятий по обеспечению продовольственной безопасности страны, в частности авторы предлагают предоставление налоговых и других льгот сельзозпредприятиям, строительство и оптимизацию производственных мощностей предприятий пищевой перерабатывающей промышленности АПК. The article reveals the importance of food security from the point of view of domestic authors. The ways to ensure food security in the country by effectively using the country's economic potential in agricultural production are suggested. The article considers the tendencies to reduce migration flows between the developed countries of the world, as well as the problems that have arisen in agricultural production in the context of the pandemic. The authors analyzed the processes of reducing the possibilities of using cheap labor of the migrating population. An analysis of the impact of the pandemic on agricultural production in our country has been carried out. Trends in the development of agricultural production at the global and national level are studied. The problems of dependence on imports in the market for the sale of finished products in the food processing industry of agricultural production are identified. In this regard, the importance and necessity of preserving and protecting food security and improving the efficiency of agricultural production in the Republic were reconsidered. The agro-food market of the country was studied by analyzing the level of self-sufficiency in grain. It was found that cereals account for about 69.1% of the total area of crops.A set of measures to ensure food security of the country is considered, in particular, the authors propose the provision of tax and other benefits to agricultural enterprises, construction and optimization of production capacities of food processing enterprises of the agro-industrial complex.

scholarly journals NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AS COMPONENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH: SOME ASPECTS OF ITS LEGAL REGULATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitalii M. Pashkov, ◽  
Maryna V. Trotska
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: Human health depends on various factors that have a different physical origin, degree of influence on the human body, methods of manifestation and other characteristics. Within public health, their research is carried out implementing an integrated approach and understanding the causation of the factors that influence each other as well as their effects on the human body. The natural environment, namely its state in general and individual natural objects, in particular, is one of the elements having both direct and indirect effects on human health. The aim: To analyze the legal basis for the regulation of the impact of the natural environment as a component of public health. Materials and methods: The study examines provisions of international documents and scientists’ attitudes. The article analyzes generalized information from scientific journals by means of scientific methods from a medical and legal point of view. This article is based on dialectical, comparative, analytic, synthetic and comprehensive research methods. Within the framework of the system approach, as well as analysis and synthesis, the concepts of public health, health and influence of the natural environment on them are researched. Review: As a result of the study of a particular range of problems, it may be noted that human health depends on a number of factors that allow it to be adequately addressed. The environmental component, namely, the state of the natural environment affecting the human body both directly and indirectly, is not the least of them. Proper legal settlement of the above-mentioned range of problems will allow a comprehensive approach to understanding the causation of human health and the natural environment. Conclusions: when researching the impact of the natural environment within public health, it can be noted that the legal basis for the multidimensional regulation of the notion of health in general, as well as its individual components, in particular, has been formed and reflected in a number of regulatory legal acts. In turn, inadequate implementation of the systematic approach with an in-depth understanding of the real and potential factors that affect human condition in one way or another does not allow the fullest possible determination of their causation both on the positive and negative sides.

scholarly journals FOOD SECURITY AS A GUARANTEE OF THE REALIZATION OF THE RIGHT TO HUMAN HEALTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (11) ◽  
pp. 3072-3076
Author(s):  
Olena M. Batyhina ◽  
Bogdan V. Derevyanko ◽  
Tetiana V. Khailova
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Fundamental Factor ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The aim: To investigate the theoretical and legal framework governing the relevant areas of food security, ensuring healthy, adequate and safe nutrition. To consider human rights to food security as a basis for health care, a basis for the realization of the right to health and life. Materials and methods: The study analyzes and uses the normative legal acts of national legislation, international acts, data from international organizations and the results of scientific work of scientists. With the help of scientific methods, medical and legal point of view, the problems of ensuring food security are identified as a guarantee of the realization of the right to human health. Сonclusions: Food security and nutrition are central to the individual and fundamental factor to the whole of society in respect of human right to health. An adequate level of food security must be ensured by individual governments and the international community through the development, approval or implementation of an appropriate regulatory framework, as well as through the establishment of a political and institutional framework.

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