Nutrition, Food Safety and Global Health
Kaosar Afsana, Saira Parveen Jolly, Fahmida Akter
Abstract
Access to nutrition and safe food is a key to sustaining life and promoting good health. Thus, the sustainable development goals (SDGs) reawaken the world alluding to the interweaving connects of health, nutrition, and food safety. This chapter introduces the current scenario of nutrition and food safety and how both traverse important issues in health including the trends of morbidity and mortality as well as the social determinants of health. Furthermore, key elements of nutrition and food safety will be introduced to further explicate how factors and drivers shape and influence food supply including production and access, food safety, and consumer behavior and practices. Finally, we argue how considerable efforts have been made drawing on the current context of changing nutrition and food safety driven by multiple factors embracing externalities, and endogenous factors are being contested and negotiated to make an impact on health equity at a global scale. To further the progress of the SDGs, we conclude with propositions to support international organizations, national government, and local stakeholders to work not in sectoral fragmentation, but together. With the appropriate commitment, investment, and actions at global, regional, and country level, no one will be left behind from attaining good health by reinforcing synergies and trade-offs among SDGs related to nutrition and food safety.