Food Security Articles and Research
2022
Climate Change, Food Security and Health
This paper in Sustainability a multidisciplinary approach to balancing ecology and agriculture to improve the changing climate and influence policy. Blending science and local knowledge leads to better outcomes for communities when agroecology is implemented.
2018
A sustainable supply chain for organic, conventional agro-food products
This study in Journal of Cleaner Production worked on model for a sustainable food chain with goals of reducing cost, environmental deforestation and increasing consumer health. The detailed mathematical approach allows for various variables to be incorporated to plan for future food production.
2019
The Climate Change, Food Security and Human Health Nexus in Canada
This study in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health proposes an analytical framework to address the social and health impacts from food security exacerbated by climate change. This included details on food production, distribution, consumption, and processing to determine implications with a broad based assessment tool.
2023
Impacts of climate change on food security and resulting perinatal health impacts
This article in Seminars in Perinatology explores the effects on poor nutrition secondary to climate change on pregnant women and infants in the perinatal period. Disorders of missing micronutrients, obesity, and underweight women are discussed.
2018
Climate Change Adaptation through the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Southern Africa
This review in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health articles looking at the food, water and energy resources impacted by climate change. Opportunities for involvement of this nexus to climate change planning was discussed.
2021
Climate change, hunger and rural health through the lends of farming styles
This study in PLOS One used agent based models to understand how changing patterns of farming styles relate to micro and macro level indicators to help with future modeling with climate change affecting these farming styles. This relation was compared to hunger and rural health.