# Environmental sustainability and nutritional quality: addressing global food and nutrition insecurity in a post-pandemic world

## TL;DR

This study explores how environmental sustainability and nutrition are linked to address global food insecurity after the pandemic.

## Contribution

The paper introduces a framework integrating health, nutrition, and agricultural resilience to tackle post-pandemic food challenges.

## Key findings

- Over 120 million people faced food insecurity between 2019 and 2023.
- Environmentally sustainable farming and climate resilience are critical for food security.
- Micronutrient deficiency and hunger risks are interconnected with agricultural stress.

## Abstract

This study examines the interrelated issues of food and nutrition insecurity in the post-COVID-19 period, emphasizing the effects of environmental preservation, environmental degradation, and global financial disturbances. Over the last decade, the world has faced unprecedented challenges in food production and delivery, including resource scarcity, biodiversity loss, and substantial price increases. Between 2019 and 2023, over 120 million individuals, representing almost 21% of the global population, experienced food insecurity, underscoring the need to address these challenges.

The research utilizes the IMPACT model, augmented with climate projections, agricultural experiments, water cycle evaluations, and global agricultural balance models, to assess the global food supply.

Implies IMPACT model.

The results underscore the need for environmentally sound farming methods and climate resilience to ensure food security in a rapidly changing global landscape.

This study provides thorough qualitative and quantitative perspectives on the intricacies of worldwide nutrition and food systems by examining net accessible calories supply, hunger distribution, micronutrients distribution, and sink calories.

Conceptual illustration summarizing the global food security challenges in the post-COVID-19 era. The graphic depicts interlinked factors such as declining food supplies, agricultural stress, micronutrient deficiency, and hunger risks, with a central emphasis on the “Food Security Post-COVID-19” framework integrating health, nutrition, and agricultural resilience dimensions.
Illustration summarizing food security challenges after COVID-19. Central text reads “Food Security Post-COVID-19” with a virus symbol. Surrounding visuals depict declining food supplies, drought, hunger, micronutrient deficiency, agricultural stress, and a bar graph of net supply calories.

Conceptual illustration summarizing the global food security challenges in the post-COVID-19 era. The graphic depicts interlinked factors such as declining food supplies, agricultural stress, micronutrient deficiency, and hunger risks, with a central emphasis on the “Food Security Post-COVID-19” framework integrating health, nutrition, and agricultural resilience dimensions.