Building Resilience through Sustainable Food Environments and Diets

Edited by:

Joana Nazaré Morgado, PhD, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Lerato Phali, PhD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 11 April 2025

Agriculture & Food Security is calling for submissions to our Collection on Building Resilience through Sustainable Food Environments and Diets. In the face of global challenges such as climate change, population growth and food insecurity, it is imperative to advance our collective understanding of sustainable food environments and diets that are healthy/nutritious and secure.

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Joana Nazaré Morgado, PhD, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Dr. Morgado has a Masters in veterinary medicine and recently became the first PhD in Sustainability Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She has collaborated with universities from Denmark to Italy and has worked in international organizations and EU agencies, such as FAO-UN and EFSA. Her areas of research are, within sustainability, in line with One Health and related subjects. These encompass: food safety and security, animal health (e.g. zoonoses, emerging pandemic threats) and welfare, healthy diets, socioeconomic determinants’ analysis, consumers' dietary changes and their impact on health (health impact assessment).

Lerato Phali, PhD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Lerato Phali holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is a former Rotary Global research fellow, and a Young Agricultural Professional Fellow, and lectured at the University of Pretoria before joining the Department of Agricultural Economics as a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has authored peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in water resource governance, government policy impacts, food waste and loss, and agricultural productivity. Her research interests include climate change (adaptation, mitigation, resilience, carbon accounting), water security, and development policy.

About the Collection

Agriculture & Food Security is calling for submissions to our Collection on Building Resilience through Sustainable Food Environments and Diets.

In the face of global challenges such as climate change, population growth and food insecurity, it is imperative to advance our collective understanding of sustainable food environments and diets that are healthy/nutritious and secure. This research area is crucial for addressing the complex interplay between agricultural practices, environmental sustainability, and food security.

Significant advances have already been made in this field, with research focusing on enhancing the resilience of food production systems to climate change, promoting sustainable agricultural practices, and understanding the impact of food environments on dietary choices of consumers (or on the consumers’ behaviour). Additionally, studies have explored the intersection of food security, nutrition, and environmental sustainability, shedding light on the intricate relationships within food systems.

Future advances may include the development of innovative technologies for sustainable food production, the implementation of policies to create more resilient food environments, and the promotion of diverse and nutritious diets. Furthermore, research may uncover novel approaches to mitigate the environmental impact of food production while ensuring food security for all.

The scope of this collection will focus on:
1. Climate-resilient agricultural practices
2. Sustainable food production technologies
3. Impact of food environments on dietary choices
4. Policies for creating resilient food environments
5. Reducing food loss and waste for resilient food systems

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This Collection welcomes submission of original research articles and reviews. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal.

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Editorial Manager. Please select the appropriate Collection title “Building Resilience through Sustainable Food Environments and Diets" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.