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Addressing another threat to food safety: conflict

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Title Addressing another threat to food safety: conflict
 
Creator Ortega-Beltran, A.
Bandyopadhyay, R.
 
Subject food security
food safety
food production
maize
mycotoxins
trade
conflicts
 
Description Open Access Journal
Societal Impact Statement
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia will negatively affect not only food security but also food safety. Crops produced in Ukraine and Russia are at little risk of contamination by mycotoxins such as aflatoxin. However, due to the conflict, wheat, maize, sunflower, and other crops that would have been produced in and exported from Ukraine will need to be produced somewhere else. If done in warm production areas, strategies will need to be implemented to prevent mycotoxin contamination, which has negative health, social, and economic impacts.

Summary
Conflicts across the globe affect food security and also have a heavy toll on food safety. Many of the areas affected by conflict are breadbaskets for multiple countries. When the production of staple crops is compromised by diverse conflicts, it becomes necessary to grow them somewhere else to satisfy local, regional, and/or international requirements. However, if that production is done in tropical and subtropical zones, it must be done incorporating strategies to prevent mycotoxin contamination, which has negative health, social, and economic impacts. Otherwise, increased production of susceptible crops in mycotoxin-prone areas may augment the already occurring negative impacts, which are severe in the global south.
 
Date 2023
2023-10-13T15:25:07Z
2023-10-13T15:25:07Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ortega‐Beltran, A. & Bandyopadhyay, R. (2023). Addressing another threat to food safety: conflict. Plants People Planet, 5(3), 317-323.
2572-2611
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132256
https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10351
BIOTECH & PLANT BREEDING
PLANT PRODUCTION & HEALTH
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 317-323
application/pdf
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Source Plants People Planet