Dear Colleagues,

Ensuring food security involves, inter alia, counteracting crises caused by natural disasters, epidemics or military operations worldwide. It also involves taking care to ensure the reduction of food losses and wastage. This in turn has an impact on lowering food prices and increasing food availability, as well as reducing environmental pollution. Efforts should also be made to create conditions that ensure that all citizens have physical access to sufficient quantities of high-quality food (especially one that reduces the risk of civilization diseases) to meet their nutritional needs and preferences (also resulting from their religious and cultural beliefs) required to lead an active and healthy life. Consumers are also looking for food that brings them specific benefits, and producers, observing the evolution of needs, develop food segments adapted to the changing requirements of consumers, in particular those that contribute to public health. Thus, ensuring that the right amount of high-quality (health-promoting) and affordable (economic condition for ensuring food security) food is produced requires continual improvement in the efficiency of agriculture and processing, as well as a supply chain that operates smoothly. In the conditions of climate change, measures ensuring the ability to ensure food security in the long term by protecting land resources, water and biodiversity while reducing food losses and wastage (environmentally friendly food) are becoming increasingly important. This Special Issue aims to bring together research on various aspects of this topic to assist in understanding the factors and complex mechanisms that determine the adequate nutrition of the population and food security. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: food problems (for example: overweight, obesity, overt and latent hunger) and ways of solving them; environmentally friendly and public health food production—expectations and prospects; the impact of climate change on food production; the impact of food and nutrition on health; determinants of the quantity and quality of food, shaping the quality of food towards reducing the risk of civilization diseases; providing adequate, high-quality food for all population groups to preserve public health; and the reduction of food losses and wastage in terms of reducing environmental pollution. I invite you to contribute papers addressing the aforementioned aspects for this Special Issue entitled “Food Security: Food Quantity, Quality and Safety—Challenges and Perspectives.”

Dr. Mariusz Rudy
Guest Editor

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• food security
• environmentally friendly and public health food production
• food safety
• food quantity and quality
• preventing food waste
• climate changes
• food and health