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World Food Day 2013: sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition.

16th October is World Food Day. The theme for 2013 is Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition. In keeping with the day's goals of improving understanding of the problems and solutions around food insecurity, we have collected articles from across BioMed Central covering recent research into agriculture and nutrition for food security.

All the articles are free to read and we hope you find something to interest you. We've included everything from documenting how rural populations use wild plants sustainably, to assessing food poverty in Texas, to measuring the impact of reducing global food waste.

Collection published: 16 October 2013

  3. Agriculture is considered to be “climate-smart” when it contributes to increasing food security, adaptation and mitigation in a sustainable way. This new concept now dominates current discussions in agricultur...

    Authors: Henry Neufeldt, Molly Jahn, Bruce M Campbell, John R Beddington, Fabrice DeClerck, Alessandro De Pinto, Jay Gulledge, Jonathan Hellin, Mario Herrero, Andy Jarvis, David LeZaks, Holger Meinke, Todd Rosenstock, Mary Scholes, Robert Scholes, Sonja Vermeulen…
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2013 2:12
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  4. The objectives of this study are twofold. First, it attempts to show the general situation and production trend of rice. Then by relating it to the current status and future potential, it proposes that reachin...

    Authors: Ghose Bishwajit, Sajeeb Sarker, Marce-Amara Kpoghomou, Hui Gao, Liu Jun, Daogen Yin and Sharmistha Ghosh
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2013 2:10
    Content type: Review Published on:

  5. Most rural people in the Limpopo Province depend on plant resources to meet their livelihood needs. However, there is insufficient recorded information regarding their use and management. The current study the...

    Authors: Marula T Rasethe, Sebua S Semenya, Martin J Potgieter and Alfred Maroyi
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:27
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  6. Lactating mothers from low-income settings are considered as a nutritionally vulnerable group. Due to the nursing process, mothers are subjected to nutritional stresses. Frequent pregnancies followed by lactat...

    Authors: Kiday Haileslassie, Afework Mulugeta and Meron Girma
    Citation: Nutrition Journal 2013 12:28
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  7. Several micronutrients are essential for adequate growth of children. However, little information is available on multiple micronutrient status of school children in Ethiopia. The present study was designed to...

    Authors: Bemnet Amare, Beyene Moges, Bereket Fantahun, Ketema Tafess, Desalegn Woldeyohannes, Gizachew Yismaw, Tilahun Ayane, Tomoki Yabutani, Andargachew Mulu, Fusao Ota and Afework Kassu
    Citation: Nutrition Journal 2012 11:108
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