The eighteenth-century Malthusian prediction of population growth outstripping food
production has not yet come to bear. Unprecedented agricultural land expansions since …

The industrialization of the agricultural sector has increased the chemical burden on natural
ecosystems. Pesticides are agrochemicals used in agricultural lands, public health …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …