食品卫生安全和营养外文文献 Sustainable food security and nutrition_ Demystifying conventional beliefs.pdf

Global Food Security 11 (2016) 11– 16 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Global Food Security journal homepage: /locate/gfs Sustainable food security and nutrition: Demystifying conventional beliefs Shenggen Fan n, Joanna Brzeska International Food Policy Research Institute, 2033 K St, NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The global food system today faces the significant challenge of feeding more people amid dwindling Received 16 December 2015 natural resources and a more fragile natural environment. The path toward sustainable food security and Received in revised form nutrition is often riddled with inaccurate and oversimplified beliefs regarding the requirements and 25 March 2016 impacts of such a strategy. This includes the belief that trade-offs are inevitable when linking environ- Accepted 30 March 2016 mental sustainability with food security and nutrition strategies—which means that stakeholders have to prioritize one area at the expense of the other. Likewise, policymakers and researchers alike often make Keywords: inaccurate assumptions about technological innovations, gender, biofuels, and smallholder farming. Such Agriculture sustainable food security and nutrition “myths” pose a significant challenge to the effective design and Bio