Assessing food security performance from the One Health concept: an evaluation tool based on the Global One Health Index.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food systems instantiate the complex interdependencies across humans, physical environments, and other organisms. Applying One Health approaches for agri-food system transformation, which adopts integrated and unifying approaches to optimize the overall health of humans, animals, plants, and environments, is crucial to enhance the sustainability of food systems. This study develops a potential assessment tool, named the global One Health index-Food Security (GOHI-FS), aiming to evaluate food security performance across countries/territories from One Health perspective and identify relevant gaps that need to be improved for sustainable food systems.

Methods

We comprehensively reviewed existing frameworks and elements of food security. The indicator framework of GOH

SUBMITTER: Gu SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10514978 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature