Food Security, Nutrition, and Sustainability in Low- and Middle- Income Countries
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 August 2026 | Viewed by 646
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social nutrition; food and nutritional insecurity; food bank; sustainable production; agri-food systems; health and nutrition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This edition aims to evaluate and understand Food and Nutritional Security in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, as well as the factors and/or indicators that influence each specific situation.
The article may be methodological in origin, focusing on the specific methodological characteristics used—systematic, scope, integrative and review; it may also be based on secondary data on Food and Nutritional Security, as well as factors that may have interfered with the results. It may also be an article based on primary data from studies that use Food and Nutritional Security and related factors, such as agri-food systems, economic, political, social, cultural, anthropometric, biochemical and dietary situations, among others. It may focus on vulnerable groups, local or national data that may or may not involve territorial assessments.
Original publications cannot have been published in other journals or presented at scientific events.
Original articles must have an opinion from an Ethics Committee.
Prof. Dr. Silvia Eloiza Priore
Dr. Dayane de Castro Morais
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food security
- food and nutritional security
- agri-food systems
- population groups
- population or population groups in greater vulnerability
- factors: social, demographic, cultural, economic, political, health, anthropometric, biochemical, dietary and nutritional
- indicators: territorial, local or national
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