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Barriers and Enablers of Food Security in Vulnerable Communities

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Food security and access to nutritious food are essential human rights, but continue to be a chronic international task, for vulnerable populations. This assessment explores the multifaceted factors influencing this mission, encompassing economic, social, environmental, political, and technological dimensions. financial factors like poverty and income inequality restrict affordability, even as social factors along with training and gender inequality affect access and usage. Environmental degradation and weather alternate threaten meals manufacturing, at the same time as political instability and insufficient governance avoid effective answers. Technological boundaries in agriculture and food protection in addition exacerbate the problem. vulnerable corporations, which includes low-earnings families, kids, girls, the aged, and marginalized groups, face disproportionate risks. the sector health enterprise (WHO) expresses sizable issues regarding the impact of meals lack of confidence on global fitness, spotting its profound links to malnutrition in all its paperwork, from stunting and wasting to micronutrient deficiencies and food regimen-associated non-communicable diseases. Addressing those complicated issues, a key WHO priority, requires a multi-pronged approach encompassing poverty discount, sustainable agriculture, improved market get right of entry to, strengthened social safety, gender empowerment, nutrition training, climate alternate mitigation, and good governance. Concerted efforts, guided via who is worldwide health agenda and addressing its unique issues approximately malnutrition and health inequities, are essential to ensure that all people, particularly the maximum inclined, have get right of entry to the nutritious food they want for a wholesome and enjoyable lifestyle.
Institution: Sharda University
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414894260
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