COP-eration for global food security

Food Losses and Waste: A Global Overview with a Focus on Near East and North Africa Region

Food losses refer to edible food mass decrease throughout the human food chain. Food losses occurring at consumption stage are called food waste. Food Losses and Waste (FLW) represent one of the most critical social, economic and ecological challenges facing humanity, besides being also an ethical issue. FAO data show that roughly one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wast...

Mycotoxins, a Major Challenge in Global Food Security

The roles of veterinarians in meeting the challenges of health and welfare of livestock and global food security

Comparative Advantage, Self-sufficiency and Food Security in Iran: Case Study of Wheat Commodity

Food security has a dynamic notion during the time and may be affected by various domestic and global factors.Nevertheless, Iranian policy makers consider food security as same as self-sufficiency in agricultural food products, particularly wheat production. However, self-sufficiency can contribute to food security only if it is in coincidences with comparative advantage and sustainable resourc...

Food Security and Land Use Change under Conditions of Climatic Variability

Food security covers aspects at all spatial levels from local to global and from an interdisciplinary and systemic food systems perspective. This book aims to better understand environmental, nutritional, agricultural, demographic, socioeconomic, political, technological, and institutional drivers, costs, and outcomes of current and future food security. Interactions with contextual factors inc...