The future of food security: three main avenues for research on trade in food systems

IF 6.2 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food Security Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI:10.1007/s12571-025-01572-2

Goedele Van den Broeck

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Abstract

While a rich literature has studied the impacts of trade on food security and nutrition, the debate is far from over. Both theoretical and empirical evidence show mixed effects, and several crucial research gaps remain. We outline three main avenues for further research to better understand how food trade influences food security and nutrition: 1) evaluation of distributional effects across and within countries, and across and within households, accounting for the nature of traded goods; 2) assessment of all forms of malnutrition, includingdietary quality and simultaneous effects; and 3) analysis of spill-overs between global and local food systems.

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粮食安全的未来：粮食系统贸易研究的三个主要途径

虽然有大量文献研究了贸易对粮食安全和营养的影响，但辩论远未结束。理论和经验证据都显示出混合效应，而且几个关键的研究空白仍然存在。我们概述了进一步研究的三个主要途径，以更好地了解食品贸易如何影响粮食安全和营养：1)评估国家之间和国家内部以及家庭之间和家庭内部的分配效应，考虑到贸易商品的性质；2)评估各种形式的营养不良，包括膳食质量和同时产生的影响；3)分析全球和地方粮食系统之间的溢出效应。

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Food Security FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-

CiteScore

14.00

自引率

6.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches. Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption. Nutrition, food quality and food safety. Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.