see also

World Food Clock [including food waste] -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Food Deserts
Food Sovereignty
Food Safety
Food and Climate Change
The Future of Food
Food Politics
World Hunger
Climate Change
Water Resources
World Food Summit
World Summit on Food Security
Entomophagy

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• Stead, Victoria, and Melinda Hinkson, Eds. 2022. Beyond Global Food Supply Chains: Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration. Springer. [Open Access] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-3155-0
  
  
• USDA Helps Schools Build Back Better, Issues Transitional Nutrition Standards for Coming School Years -- U.S. Department of Agriculture (4 February 2022)
  
  
• ‘Hunger was something we read about’: lockdown leaves Vietnam’s poor without food -- The Guardian (08 September 2021)
• Concern grows for global coffee supply amid Vietnam lockdown -- The Guardian (31 August 2021)
  
  
• How Brexit Ruined Easter for Britain’s Chocolate Makers -- The New York Times (03 April 2021)
  
  
• How your sense of smell predicts your overall health -- BBCfuture (03 March 2021)
  
  
• Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? -- The New York Times (02 March 2021)
  
  
• I coped through the pandemic with a diet of junk food. Now I'm regretting it -- The Guardian (28 February 2021)
  
  
• ‘I was living in hell’: COVID's triggers push some with eating disorders to finally get help -- USA Today (22 February 2021)
  
• Japanese lose taste for Valentine's ‘obligation chocs’ under Covid -- The Guardian (12 February 2021)
  
  
• Doctors warn of ‘tsunami’ of pandemic eating disorders – The Guardian (11 February 2021)
  
  
• What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? -- The New York Times (28 January 2021)
  
  
• Anosmia: how Covid brought loss of smell centre stage -- The Guardian (05 December 2020)
  
  
• How doughnuts became Australia's symbol of Covid hope -- The Guardian (04 November 2020)
  
  
• Add vitamin D to bread and milk to help fight Covid, urge scientists -- The Guardian (31 October 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus loss of smell: 'Meat tastes like petrol' - BBCfuture (28 August 2020)
  
  
• Which Food Influenced Humanity The Most? (27:04) -- Mental Floss (26 August 2020)
  
  
• COVID-19 and the Slow Food Community -- Slow Food USA
  
  
• Living the Slow Food Life During Lockdown -- foodtank (June 2020)
  
  
• Lost Sense of Smell May Be Peculiar Clue to Coronavirus Infection -- The New York Times (22 May 2020)
  
  
• Food in the Time of Covid-19 -- Special Issue of Gastronomica, Vol. 20, Issue 4, Winter 2020
  
  
  • The Anxiety Kitchen, or Cooking for the People I Cannot Hug -- Erica Berry
    
    
  • Migration and Meal Boxes -- Saanjh Gupta
    
    
  • Decoding Miracle Food Cures for COVID-19 -- Adrienne Bitar
    
    
  • Looking for Relief -- Caitlin McGill
    
    
  • The Food and COVID-19 NYC Archive: Mapping the Pandemic's Effect on Food in Real Time -- Amy Bentley, Stephanie Borkowsky
    
    
  • Food and Art in Times of Crisis -- Yael Raviv
    
    
  • “Do You Deliver?” Teaching a Culinary Arts Internship Course in Brooklyn as New York City Became the COVID-19 Epicenter -- David Goldberg
    
    
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• Why you’re more creative in coffee shops -- BBCworklife (20 January 2021)
  
  
• Quarantine meals: The 2020 food trend no-one predicted -- BBCNews (29 December 2020)
  
  
• U.S. Farmers Are Breeding Fewest Hogs in Almost Three Years -- Bloomberg (23 December 2020)
  
  
• Foreign-born workers were blamed for spreading Covid-19 in meatpacking plants. Their behavior was not the issue, new research suggests -- The Counter (17 December 2020)
  
  
• No pickers, no coffee: How Covid threatens Colombia's harvest -- BBCNews (13 December 2020)
  
  
• COVID-19 horror stories at meat industry factories aren't surprising -- Business Insider (6 Decmber 2020)
  
  
• How Your Brain Tricks You Into Taking Risks During the Pandemic -- ProPublica (02 November 2020)
  
  
• Boo-what? Drive-thru booya brings northern Minn. community together during pandemic -- MPRNews (29 September 2020)
  
  
• A Crisis Within A Crisis: Food Insecurity And COVID-19 -- NPR (27 September 2020)
  
  
• Texas residents warned of tap water tainted with brain-eating microbe -- The Guardian (26 September 2020)
  
  
• Covid-19: China's dilemma over wild meat trade -- BBCNews (25 September 2020)
  
  
• Eating disorders thrive in anxious times, and pose a lethal threat -- MPRNews (08 September 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus: Obesity 'increases risks from Covid-19' -- BBCNews (26 August 2020)
  
  
• 'We have no market, but lots of lobsters': a Maine lobsterwoman fights for her livelihood -- The Guardian (23 July 2020)
  
  
• Heat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America -- The New York Times (04 September 2020)
  
  
• Outdoor Dining Is a Hit, but Restaurants Face ‘Apocalyptic’ Times -- The New York Times (23 August 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus: What are the risks of catching it from food packaging? -- BBCNews (20 August 2020)
  
  
• Chicken rehoming charity gets 52,000 lockdown hen requests -- BBCNews (20 August 2020)
  
  
• Is a 20 second handwash enough to kill Covid-19? handwashing -- BBCfuture (20 August 2020)
  
  
• ‘An impossible choice’: farmworkers pick a paycheck over health despite smoke-filled air -- The Guardian (22 August 2020)
  
  
• Food and pandemics: Is intensive animal farming the ‘single most risky human behaviour’? -- FOODnavigator (21 August 2020)
  
  
• Sneak In Some Exercise -- The New York Times (15 August 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus: Obesity increases risks from Covid-19, experts say -- BBCNews (24 July 2020)
  
  
• Amid a Deadly Virus and Crippled Economy, One Form of Aid Has Proved Reliable: Food Stamps -- The New York Times (19 July 2020)
  
  
• Meet the Gleaners, Combing Farm Fields to Feed the Newly Hungry -- The New York Times (06 July 2020)
  
  
• John Phipps: COVID-19 Is Taking a Big Bite Out of Sugar Demand -- AgWeb (29 June 2020)
  
  
• Revealed: millions of Americans can’t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade -- The Guardian (23 June 2020)
  
  
• 3 big reasons why Beyond Meat won’t make big inroads with consumers over coronavirus even as supermarkets give it more shelf space -- MarketWatch (28 May 2020)
  
  
• Food Has Always Been Political -- Bon Appétit (21 May 2020)
  
  
• West Africa facing food crisis as coronavirus spreads -- The Guardian (15 May 2020)
  
  
• Most Farmers in the Great Plains Don’t Grow Fruits and Vegetables. The Pandemic is Changing That -- Civil Eats (12 May 2020)
  
  
• Meat-free future? Coronavirus exposes America's fragile food system -- The Guardian (10 May 2020)
  
  
• Trouble brewing for tea producers as coronavirus lockdown hits harvests -- The Guardian (07 May 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus and obesity: Doctors take aim at food industry over poor diets -- FoodNavigator (22 April 2020)
  
  
• Soap and solace scarce as Sri Lanka's tea pickers toil on amid lockdown -- The Guardian (24 April 2020)
  
  
• The poultry workers on the coronavirus front line: 'If one of us gets sick, we all get sick' -- The Guardian (17 April 2020)
  
  
• Qatar's migrant workers beg for food as Covid-19 infections rise -- The Guardian (07 May 2020)
  
  
• Op-ed: Growing an Appreciation for the Hands That Feed Us -- Civil Eats (06 May 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus coffee farmer: 'We're definitely scared' -- BBCNews (03 May 2020)
  
  
• Schools Transform Into ‘Relief’ Kitchens, but Federal Aid Fails to Keep Up -- The New York Times (19 April 2020)
  
  
• The Food Chain’s Weakest Link: Slaughterhouses -- The New York Times (18 April 2020)
  
  
• 'A disastrous situation': mountains of food wasted as coronavirus scrambles supply chain -- The Guardian (09 April 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns -- The Guardian (26 March 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus food rationing in the UK is inevitable -- The Telegraph (25 March 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus and obesity: industry urged to act post-crisis -- FoodNavigator (24 March 2020)
  
  
• ‘We are in serious trouble’: The other crisis – our food supply -- The Guardian (22 March 2020)
  
  
• Poor water infrastructure is greater risk than coronavirus, says UN -- The Guardian (21 March 2020)
  
  
• Detroit suspends water shutoffs over Covid-19 fears -- The Guardian (12 March 2020)
  
  
• China's Latest Virus Outbreak Exposes Perils of Exotic Wildlife Trade -- Reuters (23 January 2020)
  
  
• No-deal Brexit: quarter of UK voters now stockpiling or delaying big purchases -- The Guardian (24 August 2019)
  
  
• Eating and drinking in Africa's largest slum – in pictures – The Guardian (10 August 2019)
  
  
• Viruses Spread by Insects to Crops Sound Scary. The Military Calls It Food Security -- The New York Times (04 October 2018)
  
  
• Food apartheid: the root of the problem with America's groceries -- The Guardian (15 May 2018)
  
  
• Why are there still famines? -- BBCNews (15 March 2017)
  
  
• Obama’s development legacy rings hollow on farmers’ rights -- The Guardian (11 July 2016)
  
  
• Food shortage leaving Iraqi farmers in desperate situation -- BBCNews (27 July 2015)
  
  
• The People Pushed Out of Ethiopia's Fertile Farmland -- BBC News (05 January 2015)
  
  
• Bill Gates's Epic Project Transforms Farming in Africa -- New Scientist (04 September 2014)
  
  
• Africa's farmers face 'failed seasons' risks -- BBC News (02 September 2014)
  
  
• Educating Women May Improve Food Security in Africa -- EurekAlert (13 May 2013)
  • Link to Simon Wagura Ndiritu's thesis Essays on gender issues, Food Security, and Technology Adoption in East Africa: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/32605
    
    

• Agricultural and food security trends worldwide: An overview -- Economic and Social Development Department, FAO
  
  
• Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon. Hungry for Change: Farmers, Food Justice and the Agrarian Question. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013.
  
  
• Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods -- Iowa State University
  
  
• FDA -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  
  
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  • Practical Guide: Basic Concepts of Food Security
    
    
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• Food Insecurity in the World -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Corporate Document Repository
  
  
• Food Security in the World -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Corporate Document Repository
  
  
• Food Security in Asia and the Changing Role of Rice -- The Asia Foundation (October 2010)
  
  
  • Food security is a global concern, and it seems fitting that scholars at The Asia Foundation would be interested in such a pressing international development and policy issue. This paper was released in October 2010, and it looks at the "challenges, opportunities, and likely action points for achieving shared food security." The paper was authored by C. Peter Timmer, and it was commissioned to coincide with a major conference, "Food for All: Investment Forum for Food Security in Asia and the Pacific". The paper is based on a set of remarks given at the conference, and it includes a framework for understanding food security and a helpful section on the changing role of rice in Asia. -- The Scout Report [KMG] (February 25, 2011 | Volume 17, Number 8
    
    
• Food Security Statistics -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
  
  

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• Leonard, Christopher. The Meat Racket: The Scret Takeover of America's Food Business. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
  
  
• Living Wage Calculator -- Amy Glasmeier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  
• Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, Revised and Expanded Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
  
  
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• Nestle, Marion. Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010.
  
  
• Patel, Raj. Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2008.
  
  
• Pollan, Michael. "The Food Issue--An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief." The New York Times Magazine. 9 October 2008.
  
  
  • Michael Pollan. Bill Moyer's Journal. PBS (28 November 2008). (Watch Video; Read Transcrip) -- Few people reflect and report more astutely on the state of American food production and consumption than Michael Pollan. Beginning with his fascination in plant cultivation, THE BOTANY OF DESIRE, Pollan has become a mixture of reporter and prophet, documenting the state of American food and warning of the consequences if we don't change our ways.
    
    
• Robin, Marie-Monique. The World According to Monsanto. New Press, 2012.
  
  
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• Women, Agriculture and Food Security -- International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
  
  
• Women and sustainable food security -- Sustainable Development Department (SD), FAO
  
  
• World Food Clock -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations