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Sustainability and food and nutrition security. A vulnerability assessment framework for the Mediterranean Region

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Title Sustainability and food and nutrition security. A vulnerability assessment framework for the Mediterranean Region
 
Creator Prosperi, P.
Allen, T.
Padilla, M.
Peri, I.
Cogill, Bruce
 
Subject diet
environment
food security
human nutrition
mediterranean region
sustainability
 
Description Recurrent food crises and climate change, along with habitat loss and micronutrient deficiencies, are global issues of critical importance that have pushed food security and environmental sustainability to the top of the political agenda. Analyses of the dynamic linkages between food consumption patterns and environmental concerns have recently received considerable attention from the international and scientific community. Using the lens of a broad sustainability approach, this conceptual article aims at developing a multidimensional framework to evaluate the sustainability of food systems and diets, applicable to countries of the Mediterranean region. Derived from natural disaster and sustainability sciences, a vulnerability approach, enhanced by inputs from the resilience literature, has been adapted to analyze the main issues related to food and nutrition security. Through causal factor analysis, the resulting conceptual framework improves the design of information systems or metrics assessing the interrelated environmental, economic, social, and health dynamics of food systems.
 
Date 2014-01-01
2015-05-13T13:59:55Z
2015-05-13T13:59:55Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Prosperi, P.; Allen, T.; Padilla, M.; Peri, I.; Cogill, B. -2014-Sustainability and food and nutrition security. A vulnerability assessment framework for the Mediterranean Region.-SAGE Open 4(2)-p. 1-15
2158-2440
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/66059
https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244014539169
 
Rights Copyrighted; all rights reserved
Open Access
 
Format p. 1-15
application/pdf
 
Publisher SAGE Publications
 
Source SAGE Open