Determining food stability to achieve food security

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dc.contributor.author Garcia-Diez, Juan
dc.contributor.author Goncalves, Carla
dc.contributor.author Grispoldi, Luca
dc.contributor.author Cenci-Goga, Beniamino T.
dc.contributor.author Saraiva, Cristina
dc.date.accessioned 2022-09-21T09:49:26Z
dc.date.available 2022-09-21T09:49:26Z
dc.date.issued 2021-06-28
dc.description.abstract Food security, as part as public health protection, constitutes one of the main objectives for countries aiming to ensure the health of all their citizens. However, food security is compromised worldwide by conflict, political instability, or economic crises, both in developed and developing countries. Conversely, because of the importance of agriculture to the economies of rural areas both in developed and developing countries, this sector can contribute to improving food stability, as well as to furthering food security. Thus, livestock and traditional meat products represent a key factor in ensuring food availability. Overall, biosecurity measures improve animal welfare by decreasing the occurrence of diseases that compromise the stability by causing fluctuations in the availability of meat and animal-derived food products such as milk, eggs, or traditional fermented products. As a consequence, an absence of biosecurity measures affects food security (in its quantitative definition, as described above) as well as the productive, sanitary, and environmental sustainability of the rural environment. Products of animal origin support local trade and the regional economy, while contributing to the availability of foods without great external dependence. The manufacture of foods of animal origin aims to create products that are durable and that maintain food availability for long periods of time, even during seasons with scarce resources. Thus, dry-cured or fermented meat products play an important role in food availability. Food security also refers to food access under healthy economic conditions; therefore, knowledge of the main tools that guarantee the safety of these kinds of food products is essential to achieving food stability and further food security en_US
dc.description.department Paraclinical Sciences en_US
dc.description.librarian dm2022 en_US
dc.description.sponsorship The Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) en_US
dc.description.uri https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability en_US
dc.identifier.citation García-Díez, J.; Gonçalves, C.; Grispoldi, L.; Cenci-Goga, B.; Saraiva, C. Determining Food Stability to Achieve Food Security. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7222. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137222. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2071-1050 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.3390/su13137222
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/87265
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher MDPI en_US
dc.rights © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. en_US
dc.subject Food safety en_US
dc.subject Food security en_US
dc.subject Livestock en_US
dc.subject Biosecurity en_US
dc.subject Food stability en_US
dc.subject Fermented products en_US
dc.title Determining food stability to achieve food security en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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