Articles published in Food Security in 2021 are reviewed, showing a wide range of topics covered. Many articles are directly linked with "food" and associated terms such as "nutritive", "nutrition", "dietary", and "health". Another important group is linked with (food) "production" and a range of...

This opinion article results from a collective analysis by the Editorial Board of Food Security. It is motivated by the ongoing covid-19 global epidemic, but expands to a broader view on the crises that disrupt food systems and threaten food security, locally to globally. Beyond the public health...

Any analysis of food systems needs to include power as an aspect of political economy, in order to understand how power relations develop over time and how they affect different food system actors. This issue of the IDS Bulletin examines a range of perspectives on power in food systems, and the...

India experienced a rapid rise in COVID-19 infections from March 2021. States imposed varying levels of lockdowns and curfews to curb the spread of the disease. These restrictions severely affected the functioning of food systems. The objective of this study was to analyze how COVID-19 continues to ...

Food aid features in humanitarian response to food crisis to improve food security and halt or prevent a rise in acute malnutrition. Longitudinal data were collected in five agropastoral communities affected by the 2005 and 2010 food crises in Niger to try to understand household vulnerability, the ...

USAID conducted a landscape analysis of 102 USAID-funded programme efforts to integrate family planning with nutrition and/or food security interventions. It found that family planning, nutrition and food security interventions are delivered as part of larger integrated packages, such as health and ...

Malnutrition in all its forms continues to be a massive global challenge, and the past decade has seen a growing political attention to addressing malnutrition in different contexts. What has been largely missing so far, and is in growing demand from countries, is tangible, practical and rigorous...

This article examines the role of evidence in influencing food and nutrition-related public health policy, and starts to chart a way through the political economy of knowledge and evidence within this nexus. We propose an analytical framework for untangling the influence of food industry interests...

Cash transfer (CT) programming is an expanding form of social protection that has potential to improve child nutrition. A recent UNICEF report examined available evidence on the impact of CTs on the underlying and immediate determinants of nutritional status considering food security, health and...

A comprehensive report on water for food security and nutrition (FSN) was produced by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) for the WFS in 2015. Water is needed for drinking; sanitation and hygiene; to produce, transform, and prepare food; and for livelihoods, income ...