Trade and the equitability of global food nutrient distribution

Stephen A. Wood (), Matthew R. Smith, Jessica Fanzo, Roseline Remans and Ruth S. DeFries
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Stephen A. Wood: The Nature Conservancy
Matthew R. Smith: Harvard University
Jessica Fanzo: Johns Hopkins University
Roseline Remans: Bioversity International
Ruth S. DeFries: Columbia University

Nature Sustainability, 2018, vol. 1, issue 1, 34-37

Abstract: Abstract Access to sufficient, nutritious food is a basic human right and is necessary to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. We demonstrate that international food trade, in the current global system, is essential to nutrient access and enables some poorer countries to be able to nourish up to hundreds of millions of people. Protectionist trade policies could therefore have serious negative consequences for food security.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/s41893-017-0008-6

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