Without refute, a sustainable global food security can only be achieved when all folks have physical, social and economic access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient supply of food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for healthy life. To this end, quest to achieve this dream has been on ...

Today, global food systems are highly susceptible to food safety risks, economic shocks, price volatility, and natural disasters and pandemics, such as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). This paper draws from research on food and nutritional security, food fraud and associated economic ecosystem,...

Food waste in the global food supply chain is reviewed in relation to the prospects for feeding a population of nine billion by 2050. The topic of this article is the "food waste", an important issue which has been developed increasingly over the past few years in the context of the actions...

Provision of safe food and food security are the most studied topics of current era. Assurance of food safety in developing countries i.e., India and Pakistan are always compromised due to lack of an appropriate structure and framework. Though there are a lot of legislations and laws in the...

Food security, food safety, and healthy nutrition are key aspects of food systems with important implications for population health. Food safety addresses food-borne illness, and covers the handling, preparation and storage of food. Healthy nutrition is about the nutritional quality of diets. Food...

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, rural-dwelling people in high-income countries were known to have greater challenges accessing healthy food than their urban counterparts. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted food supplies across the world, and public health restrictions have changed the way people...

The national food system of Bangladesh has made substantial progress since experiencing famine in 1974, soon after independence. After the famine, the government placed a strong emphasis on policies required to attain grain self-sufficiency; since attaining self-sufficiency, the production system,...

In the current global context, characterized by urban growth and concerns about food security and safety, a "new food equation" emerges (Sonnino, 2014) examining the capacity of city-region food systems to feed the city and the possibilities of reconnecting production with consumption to increase...

Food security is a complex issue. Food insecurity is caused by problems associated with access to and distribution of safe and nutritious food, which are exacerbated by drought, conflict, population growth and poverty. Governments play an important role in facilitating food security. So what is the ...

An estimated 151 million children under five are severely stunted, 821 million people are under-nourished, and about 613 million women aged between 15 and 49 are anaemic. On the other hand, the increasing complexity of the food chains is resulting in food safety issues influenced by food policies,...