Current Insights into Household and Community Food and Nutrition Security
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Policies and Education for Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2026 | Viewed by 24
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food security; food literacy; child nutrition; infant feeding; public health nutrition; social policy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: household food security; public health nutrition; community nutrition; public health nutrition; food insecurity; food access
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Household and community food insecurity is increasing in prevalence across the globe, with significant and far-reaching impacts on individuals’ physical, social, and mental health and wellbeing across their life course. Ongoing austerity measures, climate change, and globally rising costs of living are seriously impacting the ability of individuals, families, and communities to feed themselves, and recent pandemics and weather events have highlighted the fragility of food supply chains, social and income policies, and food safety nets. Areas of interest could include the following:
- Identification of food and nutrition security across the lifecourse and across systems (health, welfare, education);
- Determinants of and impacts on health and wellbeing;
- Cultural food and nutrition security;
- Reimagining food safety nets and food relief;
- Nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific responses to food and nutrition security.
This Special Issue seeks critical empirical studies, evaluations, and reviews on any aspect that highlights the prevalence, determinants, and outcomes of, as well as solutions to, household and community food and nutrition insecurity. This includes broader social determinants such as housing, income, employment, and cost of living, as well as community-based strategies that enhance a food systems approach. We welcome any papers that provide insight into household and community food and nutrition insecurity as a ‘wicked’ problem. Papers may focus on adults, families, children, and communities, including migrant, refugee, and Indigenous communities.
Prof. Dr. Danielle Gallegos
Dr. Sue Kleve
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food and nutrition security
- monitoring and surveillance
- advocacy
- strategies
- food relief
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