Most people live in cities, but most food system studies and food security issues focus on the rural poor. Urban populations differ from rural populations in their food consumption by being generally wealthier, requiring food trade for their food security, defined as the extent to which people have ...
Author(s)
Porter, J. R.; Dyball, R.; Dumaresq, D.; Deutsch, L.; Matsuda, H.
Publisher
Elsevier B. V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Global Food Security, 2014, 3, 1, pp 1-7
Background: Food insecurity and its consequences have not received much attention in the Nordic, social-democratic welfare states. This study reports the prevalence of low and very low food security in Denmark, identifies its socio-demographic determinants and examines its associations with...
Author(s)
Lund, T. B.; Holm, L.; Tetens, I.; Smed, S.; Nielsen, A. L.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Citation
European Journal of Public Health, 2018, 28, 2, pp 283-288
Global food demand is driven by population and economic growth, and urbanization. One important instrument to meet this increasing demand and to decrease the pressure on food production is to minimize food losses and food waste. Food waste and loss is a major societal, economic, nutritional and...
Author(s)
Halloran, A.; Clement, J.; Kornum, N.; Bucatariu, C.; Magid, J.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2014, 49, Part 1, pp 294-301
Together with Green Development and Demonstration Programme (GUDP), the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS) invites applications for funding of projects, which carry out research and development and/or demonstration in relation to business-oriented innovation within...
Publisher
International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS), Tjele, Denmark
Citation
ICROFS News, 2022, 1,
Food is a central component of life in correctional institutions and plays a critical role in the physical and mental health of incarcerated people and the construction of prisoners' identities and relationships. An understanding of the role of food in correctional settings and effective management ...
Author(s)
Smoyer, A. B.; Minke, L. K.
Publisher
WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
Citation
Food systems in correctional settings: a literature review and case study, 2015, pp viii + 20 pp.
Food production and consumption have been recognized as a major source of environmental impacts. To ensure food security and a sustainable food system, dietary changes have been identified as one of the valuable strategies to reduce impacts on the environment while promoting human health. The vast...
Author(s)
Zucchinelli, M.; Sporchia, F.; Piva, M.; Thomsen, M.; Lamastra, L.; Caro, D.
Publisher
Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Journal of Environmental Management, 2021, 300,
Excessive consumption of meat challenges global food security and environmental sustainability. In the mounting literature on identity as a motivator of behaviour, meat consumption has been associated with a handful of identities. Identity theory suggests that people hold multiple identities on...
Author(s)
Randers, L.; Thøgersen, J.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Appetite, 2023, 180,
This collection consists of six papers selected from those presented at the "Food security and agriculture" track of the 24th ISDRS conference. The papers deal with: sustainable food systems for Africa; consumer use of agro-ecological labels; organic agriculture research and policy in Denmark,...
Author(s)
Macombe, C.; Auerbach, R.; Raggi, A.; Salomone, R.
Publisher
FrancoAngeli Edizioni, Milan, Italy
Citation
Economia Agro-Alimentare/Food Economy, 2018, 20, 3, pp 291-423
In 2002, Malawi faced a devastating food crisis, an event in which hundreds of people died of hunger, while over a thousand succumbed to a country-wide cholera epidemic. By June of that year, over 3.2 million people needed emergency food aid, one-third of Malawi's population. This article assesses...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 2013, 31, 4, pp 564-582
Food sovereignty is a concept based on an idea of food security (a varied diet with diversified, nutritious and culturally appropriate food) for everybody including the right of people to define their own food and agriculture, to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade in...
Author(s)
Vaarst, M.; González-García, E.
Publisher
International Farming Systems Association, Vienna, Austria
Citation
Producing and reproducing farming systems. New modes of organisation for sustainable food systems of tomorrow. 10th European IFSA Symposium, Aarhus, Denmark, 1-4 July 2012, 2012, pp unpaginated