Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet

To achieve a food-secure world, we must transform how our food is grown, managed, and distributed, focusing on sustainable intensification, market infrastructure, postharvest stewardship, healthy diets, and social protection. Glenn Denning's book provides an accessible guide to making healthy diets from sustainable food systems available to all, identifying the education and development of practitioner-leaders as the critical trigger of change.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 03 January 2023
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Achieving a genuinely food-secure world—one devoid of hunger and malnutrition, where every individual has access to sufficient and nutritious food to lead a healthy, active, and productive life—is a formidable challenge that requires a comprehensive transformation of our food systems. From the cultivation of crops to their management and distribution, every aspect of food systems must be sustainable, mitigating environmental degradation and actively repairing the damage we have inflicted.

In this comprehensive guide, Glenn Denning, a renowned expert with over four decades of experience in diverse countries, bridges the gap between science, policy, and practice. He synthesizes the most relevant literature, shares personal perspectives, and draws from the expertise of hundreds of leading experts. Universal Food Security: Achieving Food Systems Transformation presents key priorities and strategies for achieving food systems transformation. It emphasizes sustainable intensification, market infrastructure, postharvest stewardship, healthy diets, and social protection as critical components.

Denning identifies the education and development of practitioner-leaders as the pivotal catalyst for change. He encourages these leaders, whether working independently or within institutions, to drive the transformation toward a food-secure world. Universal Food Security provides valuable insights and inspiration for students and practitioners seeking to transform our food systems at various levels. It serves as an ideal handbook for those who want to make a meaningful impact on the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide.

Weight: 680g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780231197618