SynthesisPublic health nutrition2015
Food security and sustainability: can one exist without the other?
Synthesis in Public health nutrition, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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64 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Sustainability Dimensions of the Mediterranean Diet: A Systematic Review of the Indicators Used and Its Results.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
- An Umbrella Review and Narrative Synthesis of the Effectiveness of Interventions Aimed at Decreasing Food Prices to Increase Food Quality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Short-Term Effect of a Health Promotion Intervention Based on the Electronic 12-Hour Dietary Recall (e-12HR) Smartphone App on Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Among Spanish Primary Care Professionals: Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Trial
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- Ethnobotany of desert medicinal plants and their sustainable ethnomedicinal utilization.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2026Article
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- Prevailing Food Safety and Sustainability Practices in Grocerants: A Cross-Sectional Study in Three Countries.International journal of food science · 2026Article
- One health-sustainability intersections: an umbrella systematic review with a new integrated definition of sustainability and a meta-conceptual framework.One health outlook · 2025Review
- Providing food security in Gaza for the "day after".Israel journal of health policy research · 2025Article
- Social Protection Programs and Their Support for Promoting Access to Nutrient-Dense Foods for Vulnerable Communities in South Africa.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Review
- Food consumption patterns and score among women receiving cash assistance: emergency nutrition response in drought affected pastoralist community eastern Ethiopia.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Ethnobotanical and Nutritional Evaluation of Understudied Wild Edible Fruits in South Africa: Bridging Indigenous Knowledge and Food Security: A Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Food choice motivations and perceptions of healthy eating: a cross-sectional study among consumers in the UAE.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Shanxi province food security evaluation research.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Environmental impact of the diet of young Portuguese and its relationship with adherence to the Mediterranean Diet.European journal of nutrition · 2024Article
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5 authors.
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Abstract
objectiveTo position the concept of sustainability within the context of food security.
designAn overview of the interrelationships between food security and sustainability based on a non-systematic literature review and informed discussions based principally on a quasi-historical approach from meetings and reports.
settingInternational and global food security and nutrition.
resultsThe Rome Declaration on World Food Security in 1996 defined its three basic dimensions as: availability, accessibility and utilization, with a focus on nutritional well-being. It also stressed the importance of sustainable management of natural resources and the elimination of unsustainable patterns of food consumption and production. In 2009, at the World Summit on Food Security, the concept of stability/vulnerability was added as the short-term time indicator of the ability of food systems to withstand shocks, whether natural or man-made, as part of the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security. More recently, intergovernmental processes have emphasized the importance of sustainability to preserve the environment, natural resources and agro-ecosystems (and thus the overlying social system), as well as the importance of food security as part of sustainability and vice versa.
conclusionsSustainability should be considered as part of the long-term time dimension in the assessment of food security. From such a perspective the concept of sustainable diets can play a key role as a goal and a way of maintaining nutritional well-being and health, while ensuring the sustainability for future food security. Without integrating sustainability as an explicit (fifth?) dimension of food security, today's policies and programmes could become the very cause of increased food insecurity in the future.
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