Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Nutrition Food Security

Nutrition food security exists when all people have reliable physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life, together with the care, health, and sanitation conditions required to use that food effectively. It extends the co…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 8 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 26× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835

Overview

Nutrition food security exists when all people have reliable physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life, together with the care, health, and sanitation conditions required to use that food effectively. It extends the concept of food security beyond calorie availability to the quality and adequacy of the diet, integrating the pillars of availability, access, utilisation, and stability. Utilisation in particular links food to nutritional outcomes through dietary diversity, food safety, maternal and child care practices, clean water, and freedom from infection. Determinants operate across scales, from household income, education, and women's empowerment to agricultural production, migration, remittances, and the relationships among water, energy, and food systems. Research assesses nutritional status among women and children, dietary patterns in resource-limited and indigenous communities, sanitation and hygiene effects, and the resilience of food supplies to economic and environmental shocks; emerging work also considers alternative and sustainable protein sources. Measurement combines dietary diversity scores, anthropometry, and socioeconomic surveys to capture both access and nutritional adequacy. Achieving nutrition food security is central to preventing malnutrition and chronic disease and to supporting health and development, particularly among vulnerable populations in low-resource settings, and aligns with broader sustainable-development objectives.

Research published in this journal

8 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 8 articles above have been cited 26 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Nov 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Nutrition (ISSN 2379-7835).

Journal editorial board
Christopher Ochner · United States Alicja Kuban-Jankowska · Poland Angel Catala · Argentina

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