In this issue - December 2020
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EDITORIAL
In this issue - December 2020 Serge Savary 1 Published online: 24 November 2020 # International Society for Plant Pathology and Springer Nature B.V. 2020
The December 2020 Issue of Food Security includes 16 very different articles from very different places in the world: &
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In Article 1, Amarender Reddy, Sandra Ricart and Thimothy Cadman report to us an important study on the assessment of food safety in the streets of India’s cities. This is an important, overlooked topic, despite the fact millions depend on it. In article 2, Caleb Wright, Roger Sathre, and Shashi Buluswar speak to us of something essential in the way food is cooked, in all our homes, worldwide, and the consequence cooking methods have on health of household: the way food is being cooked has massive, overlooked consequences on human health, with children and women – the most permanent home residents in general – the first victims of bad or dangerous practices. Article 3 is a sweeping global assessment of the impacts of climate shocks, food price shocks, and armed conflicts by Molly Brown et al. on child malnutrition and its disastrous consequences to individuals and society. Aside from the fact this work is new, this work is critically important
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* Serge Savary [email protected] 1
INRAE, l’Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, Auzeville, France
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because, unfortunately, there is every reason to believe that these causes for multiple system failures: war, climate, economic crises, will become commonplace at least locally. Article 4, by Nesar Ahmed, speaks of organic aquaculture, a poorly covered topic. Organic aquaculture should overcome problems of conventional aquaculture, and so, significantly contribute to food security. Variability in yields in African farmers’ fields remains one vexing question of agronomic research, hampering the prioritization of research and action. Article 5 by C Bucagu et al. provides another illustration of this. Can inequality be mapped at the household level? If this were possible, policies could be implemented more effectively; but is such a mapping even possible today? Sana Khushi et al. show that it indeed is so, and that it works, in Article 6. Conservation of stored harvests still remains an issue in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. Solutions are explored by MJ Chegere et al. in Article 7. What to do when the harvests are completed? in Article 8 Preety Priya and Suddhachit Mitra make use of the theory of reasoned action to analyse the complex relations between psycho-social factors, microeconomics, and technology access and performance in acritical step towards food security. In article 9 Amy Savage et al. provide a new insight of food systems in small-island systems, where dramatic
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changes are underway with climate change and shifts in diets, with momentous consequences on health, but also social relationships, culture and spirituality, and ultimately, society. Much has been written on large-scale agricultur
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