More Food or Better Distribution
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2019) | Viewed by 21683
Special Issue Editor
Interests: land and food policies; land governance; food security; agrarian change; resilient agriculture; sustainable livelihood; vulnerability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Achieving food security at the national and household level plays a major role on the daily agenda of policy makers at a global level. Despite continuous efforts to create more sustainable food supply, a great proportion of the population in the developing world is still suffering from chronic malnutrition. According to the FAO (2015), currently, about 800 million people around the world–mostly women and children in developing countries–are suffering from chronic hunger. Many scholars stressed, to achieve food security, both availability and accessibility of sufficient quantities of food should be considered concurrently. On the one hand, as the population increases, food production needs to increase too. On the other hand, food availability does not assure the accessibility of enough food to all people. This is mostly related to the debate on food justice and food sovereignty. These concepts focus on the inequitable distribution of food, land, water, technology, and other production inputs, as well as having efficient institutions such as cooperatives and accessible markets to improve food distribution. This Special Issue aims at creating a multidisciplinary discussion forum on suitable approaches to achieve food security.
We invite authors to contribute original research as well as review articles that will illustrate and stimulate the continuing effort to understand the sustainable food system and food security strategies, and relevant issues.
Potential topics include:
- Food security
- Food scarcity
- Food policy
- Food justice
- Food sovereignty
- Food distribution
- Grassroots of unequal food distribution
- Consequence of the unequal food distribution
- Role of cooperatives in improving food distribution
- Role of market in improving food distribution
- Food supply and demand
- Political economy of food insecurity
- Coping strategies of food insecurity
Dr. Hossein Azadi
Guest Editor
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