Global food security – Issues, challenges and technological solutions

Mc Carthy, Ultan and Uysal, Ismail and Badia-Melis, Ricardo and Mercier, Samuel and O'Donnell, Colm and Ktenioudaki, Anastasia (2018) Global food security – Issues, challenges and technological solutions. Trends in Food Science and Technology, 77. pp. 11-20. ISSN 0924-2244

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Abstract

Background: Food security is both a complex and challenging issue to resolve as it cannot be characterized or limited by geography nor defined by a single grouping, i.e., demography, education, geographic location or income. Currently, approximately one billion people (16% of global population) suffer from chronic hunger in a time when there is more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet. Therein lies the Food security challenge to implement an ability to deal with increasing food shortages, caused by a combination of waste and an ever expanding world population. At current levels prediction state that we must increase global food production by 70% on already over exploited finite infrastructures before 2050. Scope and approach: This review paper firstly introduces the concept of Food Security with an overview of its scale and depth in the context of the global food industry. It then highlights the main sources. The readership is then introduced to the key factors affecting food security and highlights the many national and international measures adopted to tackle the problem at both policy and technological level. Key findings and conclusions: Food experts indicate that no one single solution will provide a sustainable food security solution into the future. Collective stakeholder engagement will prove essential in bringing about the policy changes and investment reforms required to achieve a solution. Achieving truly sustainable global food security will require a holistic systems-based approach, built on a combination of policy and technological reform, which will utilize existing systems combined with state-of-the-art technologies, techniques and best practices some of which are outlined herein.

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Additional Information:	Funding Information: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 70837 . Funding Information: This publication has emanated from research supported in part by a research grant from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under Grant Number 16/IFB/4439 . Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
Uncontrolled Keywords:	/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1300/1305
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Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2022 23:02
Last Modified:	13 Aug 2023 02:05
URI:	http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/3709

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