Food security and sustainability

Can one exist without the other

Bibliographic Data

ID15097447
AuthorsElliot M Berry (0000-0002-6633-4367, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Dernini (0000-0002-0225-4683, CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change), Sandro Dernini, Barbara Burlingame (0000-0002-9286-5751, Deakin University), Alexandre Meybeck, Piero Conforti (Economical and Social Research Centre)
Year2015
Volume18
Issue13
Pages2293-2302
Publication date2015-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Health Nutrition (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1368-9800 • E-ISSN: 1475-2727
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s136898001500021x
PMID25684016
OpenAlexW2153581691
LanguageEN
Citations received56
References cited40

Objective To position the concept of sustainability within the context of food security. Design An 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. Setting International and global food security and nutrition. Results The 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 . Conclusions Sustainability 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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