Track: COVID-19 Food Security Challenges

Food Science 2024

Sub-Track:

Food  security occurs when all people are ready to access enough safe and nutritious food to satisfy their requirements for a healthy life, in ways the earth can sustain into the longer term. However, food security faces variety of challenges across both production and consumption which research are going to be essential to solve.
 
Many countries face the double burden of hunger and under nutrition alongside overweight and obesity, with one in three people across the world currently affected by some sort of malnutrition. Indeed its commonplace to seek out people with different sorts of malnutrition living side-by-side in one country, in one community, or maybe within the same household.

·  Lack of affordable housing
·  Financial pressures in food supply chain
·  Systemic racism
·  Racial discrimination malnutrition
·  Closure of food production facilities