Review on Food Sustainability: Challenges and Strategies

Abstract

The long-term goal of food sustainability is to produce enough food to maintain the human population. Within sustainable food systems, the significance of a sustainable diet is an emerging notion. Food preferences, choices and eating habits are notoriously hard to change as they are a central aspect of people’s lifestyles and their socio-cultural environment. Although there is now an enormous gap between the public's favourable perceptions of sustainable food and their actual consumption and purchase of more sustainable food products, this gap continues to be bridged. Fertile soil, water, fertilizers, a stable climate, and energy are the essential components of a sustainable food system. But as the world's population rises, human actions also play a role in determining how much food is required in the future. A building storm of quickly changing climate, increased hunger and malnutrition, and severe socioeconomic imbalances revolves around food systems. This study evaluates a few human activities, such as diet, obesity, food miles, food waste, and genetically modified organisms, that could have an impact on the food supply chain's ability to continue sustainably.