Trends in global agricultural land use: implications for environmental health and food security

N Ramankutty, Z Mehrabi, K Waha… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The eighteenth-century Malthusian prediction of population growth outstripping food
production has not yet come to bear. Unprecedented agricultural land expansions since …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical pesticides and human health: the urgent need for a new concept in agriculture

P Nicolopoulou-Stamati, S Maipas… - Frontiers in public …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The industrialization of the agricultural sector has increased the chemical burden on natural
ecosystems. Pesticides are agrochemicals used in agricultural lands, public health …

Agroforestry can enhance food security while meeting other sustainable development goals

A Waldron, D Garrity, Y Malhi… - Tropical …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
To achieve global food security, we need to approximately double food production over the
coming decades. Conventional agriculture is the mainstream approach to achieving this …

Farmers, foodies and First Nations: getting to food sovereignty in Canada

AA Desmarais, H Wittman - Critical Perspectives on Food …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This paper examines how the concept and framework of food sovereignty has been
incorporated in food policy agendas across diverse sectors of Canadian society, particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Narrow and brittle or broad and nimble? Comparing adaptive capacity in simplifying and diversifying farming systems

M Petersen-Rockney, P Baur, A Guzman… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Humanity faces a triple threat of climate change, biodiversity loss, and global food insecurity.
In response, increasing the general adaptive capacity of farming systems is essential. We …

A food politics of the possible? Growing sustainable food systems through networks of knowledge

A Blay-Palmer, R Sonnino, J Custot - Agriculture and Human Values, 2016 - Springer
There is increased recognition of a common suite of global challenges that hamper food
system sustainability at the community scale. Food price volatility, shortages of basic …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of food security: where are we now, where should we go next?

M Akbari, P Foroudi, M Shahmoradi, H Padash… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Food security is one of the most challenging topics globally; however, the concept of food
security has taken on additional dimensions that are general and are less detailed. This …

Transformative agroecology learning in Europe: building consciousness, skills and collective capacity for food sovereignty

CR Anderson, C Maughan, MP Pimbert - Critical adult education in food …, 2022 - Springer
Agroecology has been proposed as a key building block for food sovereignty. This article
examines the meaning, practices and potentials of 'transformative agroecology learning'as a …

Food sovereignty, food security and health equity: a meta-narrative mapping exercise

AM Weiler, C Hergesheimer, B Brisbois… - Health policy and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
There has been growing policy interest in social justice issues related to both health and
food. We sought to understand the state of knowledge on relationships between health …

Food justice or food sovereignty? Understanding the rise of urban food movements in the USA

J Clendenning, WH Dressler, C Richards - Agriculture and Human Values, 2016 - Springer
As world food and fuel prices threaten expanding urban populations, there is greater need
for the urban poor to have access and claims over how and where food is produced and …