Showing papers in "Global Food Security in 2020"

TL;DR: More attention is needed for the inclusion and exclusion effects of Agriculture 4.0 technologies, and for reflection on how they relate to diverse transition pathways towards sustainable agricultural and food systems driven by mission-oriented innovation systems.

TL;DR: From public health, income distribution and food security perspectives, the remarkably rapid and severe shocks imposed because of COVID-19 illustrate the value of having in place transfer policies that support vulnerable households in the event of ‘black swan’ type shocks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the threat of animal-sourced foods consumption on sustainability and human health, overestimate and ignore the tremendous variability in the environmental impact of livestock production, and fail to adequately include the experience of marginalized women and children in low and middle-income countries whose diets regularly lack the necessary nutrients.

TL;DR: The results show that unreasonable restrictions would block the outflow channels of agricultural products, hinder necessary production inputs, destroy production cycles, and finally undermine production capacity in China.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of 75 studies on the competition for biomass and production resources such as land, water, labour and capital across food, feed and fuel production is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed 28 studies to find convergence and divergence between objectives and activities that define regenerative agriculture (RA) and proposed a provisional definition of RA as an approach to farming that uses soil conservation as the entry point to regenerate and contribute to multiple ecosystem services.

TL;DR: Research and science should not only inform food and environmental policy but should be adopted and mainstreamed into actions at all levels to deliver sustainable, healthier diets.

TL;DR: Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa, Willd) is an Andean grain crop recognized as an ally for global food security due to its high nutritional value.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of global trade on food systems were assessed using national scale indicators, such as maintaining diversity and redundancy, and managing connectivity, and they found that despite a growing number of people being heavily dependent upon imports, the number of import partners decreased more often than it increased, except for the case of vegetables & fruits.

TL;DR: In rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa, there is a high dependency on off-farm income and little incentive to intensify production as discussed by the authors, thus rural households are often ‘reluctant’ farmers, lacking resources or economic incentives to invest in agriculture.

TL;DR: In this paper, the outlook of transforming smallholder agriculture in China into sustainable food production is analyzed, and the authors developed a model for transforming small-holder agriculture to sustainable agriculture through co-operation with stakeholders.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the SDGs as a framework to illustrate to readers from multiple disciplines how the example of the maize agro-food system can be important in ensuring global food and nutrition security.

TL;DR: In this article, a research agenda that aims to resolve controversies and support evidence-based policies for sustainable and inclusive agricultural mechanization in Africa is proposed, with the aim of resolving controversies and supporting evidence based policies.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed 12,640 research articles to quantify how this discourse evolved over the last 50 years, distinguishing between a focus on three potential levers: total food production, per capita food demand, and population.

TL;DR: It is found that upgrading is more dynamic in countries with high rice production and import bills and limited comparative advantage in demand, however, scaling of upgrading faces several challenges in terms of vertical coordination, technology, finance and policies.

TL;DR: Despite intensive wheat breeding efforts, current local cultivars were found to be far from their optimum, meaning that a large genetic yield gap still exists in European wheat, and closing this unexploited geneticield gap in Europe through crop improvements and genetic adaptations could contribute towards global food security.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess 32 highly-cited international studies, identifying and comparing differences in the frameworks used for food systems analysis, and discrepancies in the procedures to identify strategies for and performances of food system transformation.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of sustainability certification on food security in developing countries is explored through a systematic review of the extant scholarship, complemented by a selective review of key studies examining the wider socioeconomic effects of certification that may affect food security indirectly.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a Missing Middle between food production and consumption, and between globally defined goals and local implementation practices that may hinder progress towards SDG 2, and encourage actors in food provisioning to start addressing the Missing Middle by collaborating with relevant stakeholders in specified cases.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis of field warming experiments was conducted to show that yield responses to global warming differ strongly between China's rice cropping systems, and that the contribution of these systems to China's total rice production has shifted dramatically over recent decades.

TL;DR: This work builds on evidence of the current state of domestic rice value chain upgrading in West Africa to anticipate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rice value chains’ resilience and their capacity to sustain food security in the region.

TL;DR: This article conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to consolidate results from 97 original studies, focusing on economic effects of sustainability standards and outcome variables that are frequently considered in quantitative studies, including output prices, yields, production costs, farmer profits, and household income.

TL;DR: Simulation results show that phosphate rock (PR) production needs to double by 2050 compared to present levels, in order to match regional P requirements.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new typology of small farms in Europe using a multivariate analysis drawing from household surveys from 14 European countries has been proposed, which provides evidence of entrepreneurship and strong market linkages as well as a range of motivations.

TL;DR: The complex biophysical, socio-economic and technological challenges related to improving quality feed supply and the reasons for generally low adoption of apparently proven feed enhancement technologies are reviewed.

TL;DR: Grey literature provided a summary of contamination and fraud issues from around the globe and shows its potential to be used alongside database resources for a holistic overview.

TL;DR: There is an urgent need for more robust methods and metrics to quantitatively assess the sustainability of agri-food production systems on a joint nutritional, health, and environmental basis.

TL;DR: In this article, a literature review examines and evaluates the role of fish and fisheries in supporting food, economic and nutrition security in Ghana, and highlights the lack of focus on fish in the literature with regard to regional food security and fisheries governance.

TL;DR: It is shown that 74% of irrigated nuts are produced under blue water stress, throughout many regions of the world, most notably in India, China, Pakistan, the Middle East, the Mediterranean region and the USA.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed consumption of processed foods and consumption of food away from home (FAFH) of urban, metropolitan, and rural populations using OLS regression models.