Ammar Khalil A, Kheir Ahmed M S, Ali Beshir M, Sundarakani Balan, Manikas Ioannis
International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, ICBA, Dubai, UAE.
Faculty of Business, University of Wollongong in Dubai, Knowledge Park, Dubai, 20183 UAE.
Environ Dev Sustain. 2023 Feb 22:1-20. doi: 10.1007/s10668-023-03032-3.
Rapid population growth, climate change, limited natural resources, and the COVID-19 pandemic contribute to increased global hunger, necessitating intensive efforts to ensure food security and nutrition (FSN). Previous FSN approaches covered some dimensions, but not all, resulting in significant gaps in food security indicators. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions have received less attention in food security studies, thus far necessitating considerable effort to develop an appropriate analytical framework. This study reviewed articles and international reports of FSN indicators, drivers and policies, methods, and models and extracted the challenges and gaps from the global and UAE contexts. The UAE and the world have gaps in FSN drivers, indicators, and methods, necessitating potential solutions to meet future challenges such as rapid population growth, pandemics, and limited natural resources. As a result, we created a newly developed analytical framework that addresses the shortcomings of previous approaches such as sustainable food systems developed by FAO and the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) and covers all aspects of food security. Gaps in knowledge in FSN drivers and policies, indicators, big data, methods, and models were considered in the developed framework, which has specific advantages. The novel developed framework addresses all food security dimensions (access, availability, stability, and utilization), ensuring poverty reduction, food security, and nutrition security while outperforming previous approaches (i.e., FAO and GFSI). The developed framework could be used successfully not only in the UAE and MENA, but also, globally, helping to solve food insecurity and malnutrition for future generations. The scientific community and policymakers should disseminate such solutions to address global food insecurity and ensure nutrition for future generations in the face of rapid population growth, limited natural resources, climate change, and spreading pandemics.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10668-023-03032-3.
人口快速增长、气候变化、自然资源有限以及新冠疫情导致全球饥饿加剧，因此需要做出密集努力以确保粮食安全和营养（FSN）。以往的粮食安全与营养方法涵盖了部分而非全部维度，导致粮食安全指标存在重大差距。迄今为止，海湾合作委员会（GCC）以及中东和北非（MENA）地区在粮食安全研究中受到的关注较少，因此需要付出相当大的努力来制定一个合适的分析框架。本研究回顾了关于粮食安全与营养指标、驱动因素和政策、方法及模型的文章和国际报告，并从全球和阿联酋的背景中提取了挑战和差距。阿联酋和全球在粮食安全与营养的驱动因素、指标和方法方面存在差距，需要潜在的解决方案来应对未来的挑战，如人口快速增长、疫情和自然资源有限等。因此，我们创建了一个新开发的分析框架，该框架解决了先前方法（如粮农组织制定的可持续粮食系统和全球粮食安全指数（GFSI））的缺点，并涵盖了粮食安全的所有方面。在已开发的框架中考虑了粮食安全与营养驱动因素和政策、指标、大数据、方法及模型方面的知识差距，该框架具有特定优势。新开发的框架涵盖了所有粮食安全维度（获取、供应、稳定性和利用），在确保减贫、粮食安全和营养安全的同时，优于先前的方法（即粮农组织和全球粮食安全指数）。所开发的框架不仅可以在阿联酋和中东及北非地区成功使用，而且在全球范围内也适用，有助于为子孙后代解决粮食不安全和营养不良问题。科学界和政策制定者应传播此类解决方案，以应对全球粮食不安全问题，并在人口快速增长、自然资源有限、气候变化和疫情蔓延的情况下确保子孙后代的营养。
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