Revisiting food security in 2021: an overview of the past year

Serge Savary (), Stephen Waddington, Sonia Akter, Conny J. M. Almekinders, Jody Harris, Lise Korsten, Reimund P. Rötter and Goedele den Broeck
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Serge Savary: Editor-in-Chief, Food Security, INRAE
Stephen Waddington: Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Sonia Akter: National University of Singapore
Conny J. M. Almekinders: WUR
Jody Harris: Senior Editor, Thailand and Institute of Development Studies
Lise Korsten: Centre of Excellence Food Security at the University of Pretoria
Reimund P. Rötter: Georg-August-University
Goedele den Broeck: UCLouvain

Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, 2022, vol. 14, issue 1, No 1, 7 pages

Abstract: Abstract Articles published in Food Security in 2021 are reviewed, showing a wide range of topics covered. Many articles are directly linked with "food" and associated terms such as "nutritive", "nutrition", "dietary", and "health". Another important group is linked with (food) "production" and a range of connected terms including: "irrigation", "cultivated", "organic", "varieties", "crop", "vegetable", and "land". A third group of terms refers to the scales at which food security is considered: "household", "farmer", "farm", "smallholder", "community", "nation" and "region". A few themes of Food Security are considered: (1) food supply and demand, food prices, and global trade; (2) food security in households; (3) food production; (4) value chains and food systems; (5) the evolution of the concept of food security; and (6) global nutrition. In a last section, perspectives for Food Security are discussed along four lines of thoughts: the level of inter-disciplinary research published in Food Security; the importance of the Social Sciences for food security as a collective good underpinned by other collective goods within food systems; the balance between the Global South and the Global North in Food Security; and a warning that urgent global challenges that vitally interact with food security may be left unattended as a result of the current public health emergency.

Keywords: Food security; Nutrition; Agriculture; Household; Communities; World food system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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