Food Production–Consumption Balance: A Growing Challenge under Globalization

Dear Colleagues,

The production–consumption relationship of foods has become a research hotspot as it can reveal the relationship between humans and ecosystems. The ecosystem provides most of the goods and services that humans need for their survival. In recent decades, with the rapid increase in population numbers and development of socioeconomic conditions, as well as the shifting to a more diversified consumption patterns across the world, it has become competitive to produce sufficient food for human beings in order to meet their demand both quantitatively and qualitatively. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought further pressure on food security for many countries due to its influence on local production and international trading. This Special Issue aims to investigate the production and supply of food resources, demand and consumption of food resources, and the relationships between production and consumption, to explore whether local production and supply of food can support current life demand and consumption and to reveal the factors that affect production and consumption.

Prof. Dr. Lin Zhen
Guest Editor

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