Throughout the world, including in developed countries, the COVID-19 crisis has revealed and accentuated food insecurity. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations clearly defines food security as a situation of not only availability and accessibility but also social acceptability ...

To ensure sustainable food security, it is imperative to consider the legal instruments for the promotion and protection of agricultural and food diversity. This is the mission of the Research Chair in Law on Food Diversity and Food Security at Laval University (DDSA Chair) since its creation in...

Food systems are at the center of global environmental, social, and economic challenges such as resource scarcity, ecosystem degradation, and climate change [1]. The current food systems are generating negative outcomes, such as land, water, and ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, excessive...

The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) was launched in 2012 by the G7 countries as a major initiative to fight hunger in Africa. It promised to raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years by brokering pro-market reforms and flows of private capital to African...

Ukraine and Russia are two important grain producers and exporters in the world, accounting for 12% and 17% of the world's wheat exports, respectively. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine may greatly impact Ukraine's wheat production and export as well as Russia's wheat export. Satellite...

There is broad consensus on the need for bold action to improve the performance of food systems. But as recent work by the OECD has shown, on many important food systems issues progress is hampered by evidence gaps. These concern not just the extent, characteristics and drivers of policy issues,...

Food is back on the agenda of city regions in industrialized countries. A 2013/2014 study carried out in France by the International Urban Food Network (IUFN) reveals that French local governments and actors are involved in a wide array of actions, namely: (1) developing alternative food supply...

Existing indicators of agricultural protection and support were developed primarily to gauge the market and welfare effects of government policies. They have shed light on a wider range of impacts through their use in economic models and empirical analysis. The rising scale of support to...

Introduction - Among other factors, food insecurity may be involved in the relationship between poverty and obesity, especially in women. Our objective was to describe food insecurity prevalence, and to assess the association between food insecurity and body weight status in women using food...

This brief commentary demonstrates that the reduction in manufacturing production, especially that of food, beverages, and motor vehicles, trailers, and semi-trailers (MTS), is an important reason for the pressure on the food supply chain in France and Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. This...