Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic and recent international crises including the Russia-Ukraine conflict have resulted in significant disruptions along multiple segments of the Caribbean's agri-food system, thus compromising regional food security. These impacts are still ongoing with the...

This section consists of eight papers that address food security from various perspectives. Among the specific topics covered are: the relationships between agriculture, food security and climate change; Romania's position in Europe according to the Global Food Security Index; the measurement of ...

More and better quality private sector investment in food systems will be needed for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Recent developments in food systems have resulted in new challenges and controversies, both with respect to their sustainability, and the extent to which they...

Despite varying farm animal welfare laws being enacted and considered, it is unclear and unknown whether they generate sufficient benefits to justify their costs. This study asks how sow gestation crate laws that dictate minimum crate size, a particular farm animal welfare law, impact meat...

State legislators passed laws preempting, or prohibiting, local governments from regulating beverage containers. Although the primary purpose of these laws may be to ban local environmental regulations addressing single-use plastics, it is unknown the extent they also preempt public health policies ...

Food security is an important topic involving people's everyday lives. In recent decades, organic food consumption has been touted as a path to food security. As such, civil society networks in Chiang Mai have been working to support the movement toward organic food. Organic food networks linking...

The primary driver of food security or insecurity is the food system which creates a framework of approach to study and also solving this issue in region. The case study is analyzing the availability and accessibility of food in settlements Sangrelaya and Cocalito in Honduras. The local food system ...

This issue presents seven plenary papers from the XVth EAAE Congress, which examine key trade-offs that confront the agri-food system in Europe as well as the rest of the world. Three themes are addressed: (i) sustainability issues in food supply chains and international trade; (ii) consumer...

Frundu, which in a local term in Darfur for fermented seeds of roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.), is a traditional Sudanese food often used as a meat substitute during famine times. The objective of this study was to assess the relationships between socio-demographic and management regimes on the...

Food loss and food waste are recognized as two of the most challenging dilemmas facing the world today with serious repercussions on food security, the environment, and global as well as regional and national economies. This is not different in the Arab countries where the food loss and food waste...