Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate if religious food laws can provide answers to current issues with the food systems. Design/methodology/approach - This paper provides a discussion of the dietary and food system principles from a Judaism, Christianity and Islamic perspective for ...

Food policies are focused on ensuring the consumption needs of the existing population in a given territory. In general, food policies are built on food continuity and production based on a pool of natural resources available at a given time. Critical food security incidents, particularly the...

Food supply has been a constant source of concern for mankind. In the present context, with food security a priority of European and national policies, an analysis of pig farming in a representative NUTS2 administrative level of Romania that emphasizes the proportion of households raising at least...

China is the world's largest consumer of pork and grains. However, African swine fever (ASF) and the COVID-19 outbreak have greatly impacted the pork supply and food security in China. How can food security and the pork supply be ensured under the dual impacts of COVID-19 and ASF? This is a major...

Backyards are family settings adjacent to the house, characterized mainly by being small-scale and diversified productive spaces. The research typologically characterized the backyards and their contribution to family food security in La Concordia municipality, Chiapas, Mexico. The research was...

The Spanish flu, Asian flu, Hong Kong flu, HIV/AIDS, SARS, Ebola, and Swine flu, among others, have had a significant impact on agriculture, education, the economy, and human activities, including leisureliness, shipping, healthiness, fisheries, mining, industry, and trade. Currently, manhood is...

Food security of Russia is related to food self sufficiency, i.e correlation between production and consumption volumes. Negative effects of intensive urbanization, decline of agriculture resulting from collapse of the former forms of land ownership and economies, and decrease in state support to...

This conference paper tackles key issues in biosecurity, food security, and the scientific and technological policy solutions. It includes case studies about technologies and tools employed to meet the challenges of fall armyworm, African swine fever, footand-mouth disease, and cereal rusts.

The article deals with topical issues of investment development of pig breeding by the example of the Belgorod region. To develop high-tech investment projects, there is a great necessity for a qualitative improvement in the selection-and-breeding work of domestic pig farms to achieve the best...