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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023

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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023

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Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum

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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023

Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural-urban continuum

Urbanization is changing agrifood systems globally in ways that can only be understood through a rural-urban continuum lens. The changing pattern of population agglomerations across a rural-urban continuum and its interface as a place of exchange and socioeconomic interactions, is reshaping and being reshaped by agrifood systems, with implications for the availability and affordability of healthy diets, and in turn, for food security and nutrition.

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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World

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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an annual flagship report jointly prepared by FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO to inform on progress towards ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition and to provide in-depth analysis on key challenges for achieving this goal in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Genetic Testing for Personalized Nutrition

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Genetic Testing for Personalized Nutrition

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Nutrigenomix: Genetic Testing for Personalized Nutrition

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Eat according to your genes! We offer comprehensive tests for Health & Wellness, Athletic Performance and Fertility. Our kits test how genes impact weight loss & body composition, nutrient metabolism, heart health, performance, fertility, food intolerances, and eating habits.

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The Future of Plant-Based Diets: Aligning Healthy Marketplace Choices with Equitable, Resilient, and Sustainable Food Systems

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The Future of Plant-Based Diets: Aligning Healthy Marketplace Choices with Equitable, Resilient, and Sustainable Food Systems

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News From 2037: The Personalized Nutrition Trend is Rapidly Emerging

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News From 2037: The Personalized Nutrition Trend is Rapidly Emerging

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PREVENT DISEASE: Catalogs chemicals, proteins, & physiological states to provide insights into preventative care

Saliva collected from obese/overweight children and adults show elevated levels of inflammatory biomarkers including C-reactive protein, tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-6, and interferon-γ inSalivary antioxidant status has also been studied as a measure of oxidative stress in individuals with type 2 diabetes, according to researchers.

TRACK FOOD: Record nutrients, caloric intake, flavor preferences, and ingestion patterns
A sensor chip records exactly what you've eating and how much.

ANALYZE DNA: Know your body's unique sensitivity to food, caffeine, carbs, and more

Research shows that dieting success is largely determined by the individual's genetic composition, not the diet itself.

MEASURE HORMONES: Cortisol, melatonin, and other hormones provide insights into your stress, sleep patterns, and athletic/ physical performance

These hormones impact nearly every process in the body, including energy production, immune activity, and cellular maintenance/repair. Additionally, they are key regulators of glucose, insulin and inflammation; and play a major role in bone and muscle building, mood and mental focus, stamina, sex drive and sleep cycles.

NON-INVASIVE: A stress-free diagnostic alternative to blood testing

Saliva testing removes the fear and discomfort of a needle stick, while delivering the most reliable method for measuring levels of bioavailable hormones.

WIRELESS SENSOR: A small, thin, unobtrusive, wireless sensor chip connects to your devices

Previous wearable devices for monitoring dietary intake required the use of a mouth guard, bulky wiring, or necessitating frequent replacement as the sensors rapidly degraded.

REAL-TIME RESULTS: Turn your devices into an on-the-go lab that performs real-time analysis and provides immediate results

Tailor syncs seamlessly across all your devices and wearables

AI ASSISTANT: Machine learning processes your eating habits and provides what your body needs in all your favorite flavors

Tailor sends reminders and recommendations, based off AI machine learning and real-time analysis.

How It Works

It starts at your next dentists visit. A tooth-mounted tracker is overlaid onto the inside of one of your incisors. This small device records nutritional data and provides instant results. Use Tailor on the go with restaurant smart menus, specially curated for your body's current data or at home with your 3D printer, updated with focused nutrition in your favorite flavors.

Make an appointment with a Tailor-certified dentist to get this tooth-mounted assistant. This low-cost, non-invasive device is a three-minute destructive-free procedure, no drilling or damage to your teeth. With no down time and easy smart device setup and sync you'll be on the road to a tailored nutritional plan in no time.
To set up:

1. Download the Tailor app

2. Sync your device by pairing your device with your unique code

3. Setup your preferences

4. Live. You're ready to go.

Let the system that knows you best, provide exactly what you need, when you need it so you can live a life as unique as you!
What's Next for Tailor?
The number of Tailor-certified dentists has increased to 4,500 in all 50 states. Tailor promises consumers a 5-10 year shelf life and 10,000 units have already been sold. Jonah Buell, a 27-year-old game developer in Austin has been using Tailor since April of this year.

"Tailor has been lifechanging. I've been able I'm more focused and productive at work so I can really enjoy the off time I have with my wife or cycling with my friends. I'll keep Tailor for life," said Buell.

One thing is for sure, implantable technology-like Tailor-is here to stay and it's proven to be a vital way for personal wellness and the healthcare industry.

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News From 2037: The Personalized Nutrition Trend is Rapidly Emerging

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It's the year 2035. Consumers care about their health. They rely on technology to make the best decisions for their lifestyles and keep tabs on their personal health data. Today's consumers spend...

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What if everyone’s nutrition was personalised?

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What if everyone’s nutrition was personalised?

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What If? | You are what you eat: January 2035

How the mass adoption of personalised nutrition is changing people's health-and the food industry. An imagined scenario from 2035

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Editor's note: This year What If?, our annual collection of scenarios, considers the future of health. Each of these stories is ﬁction, but grounded in historical fact, current speculation and real science. They do not present a uniﬁed narrative but are set in diﬀerent possible futures Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions.

This article appeared in the What If? section of the print edition under the headline "You are what you eat"

From the July 3rd 2021 edition

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Population growth in Brazil between 2021-2040 will result from positive natural change, as net migration declines. Rising living standards and the falling birth rate will drive ageing, placing pressure on healthcare services, while the rise in seniors will shape consumer trends. Urbanites will remain a key consumer group as urbanisation rises. While the large population helps Brazil become an increasingly attractive consumer market, poverty and inequality will challenge the nation in 2040.

The Brazil in 2040: The Future Demographic report analyses factors influencing national consumer expenditure. Consumer lifestyles reports include coverage of: population, urban development, home ownership, household profiles, labour, income, consumer and family expenditure, health, education, eating habits, drinking habits, shopping habits, personal grooming, clothing, leisure habits, savings and investments, media, communication, transport and travel and tourism. Use this report to understand the factors influencing a nation's lifestyle choices.

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Innovation with a Purpose: The role of technology innovation in acceleration food systems transformation

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Innovation with a Purpose: The role of technology innovation in acceleration food systems transformation

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Climate change and food scarcity in the 2040s: Future of Food P1

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Climate change and food scarcity in the 2040s: Future of Food P1

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When it comes to the plants and animals we eat, our media tends to focus on how it's made, how much it costs, or how to prepare it using excessive layers of bacon and unnecessary coatings of deep fry batter. Rarely, however, does our media talk about the actual availability of food. For most people, that's more of a Third World problem.

Sadly, that won't be the case by the 2040s. By then, food scarcity will become a major global issue, one that will have a massive impact on our diets.

("Eesh, David, you sound like a Malthusian. Get a grip man!" say all of you food economics nerds reading this. To which I reply, "No, I'm only a quarter Malthusian, the rest of me is an avid meat eater concerned about his future deep-fried diet. Also, give me some credit and read to the end.")

This five-part series on food will explore a range of topics relating to how we're going to keep our bellies full over the coming decades. Part one (below) will explore the coming time bomb of climate change and its impact on the global food supply; in part two, we'll talk about how overpopulation will lead to the "Meat Shock of 2035" and why we'll all become vegetarians because of it; in part three, we'll discuss GMOs and superfoods; followed by a peek inside smart, vertical, and underground farms in part four; finally, in part five, we'll reveal the future of the human diet-hint: plants, bugs, in-vitro meat, and synthetic foods.

So let's kick things off with the trend that will most shape this series: climate change.

Climate change cometh

If you haven't heard, we've already written a rather epic series on the Future of Climate Change, so we're not going to blow a whole lot of time explaining the topic here. For the purpose of our discussion, we'll just focus on the following key points:

First, climate change is real and we're on track to see our climate growing two degrees Celsius hotter by the 2040s (or maybe sooner). The two degrees here is an average, meaning that some areas will become much hotter than just two degrees.

For every one-degree rise in climate warming, the total amount of evaporation will rise by about 15 percent. This will have a negative impact on the amount of rainfall in most farming regions, as well as on water levels of rivers and freshwater reservoirs across the world.

Plants are such divas

Okay, the world is getting warmer and dryer, but why is that such a big deal when it comes to food?

Well, modern farming tends to rely on relatively few plant varieties to grow at an industrial scale-domesticated crops produced either through thousands of years of manual breeding or dozens of years of genetic manipulation. Problem is most crops can only grow in specific climates where the temperature is just Goldilocks right. This is why climate change is so dangerous: it will push many of these domestic crops outside their preferred growing environments, raising the risk of massive crop failures globally.

For example, studies run by the University of Reading found that lowland indica and upland japonica, two of the most widely grown varieties of rice, were highly vulnerable to higher temperatures. Specifically, if temperatures exceeded 35 degrees Celsius during their flowering stage, the plants would become sterile, offering little to no grains. Many tropical and Asian countries where rice is the main staple food already lie on the very edge of this Goldilocks temperature zone, so any further warming could mean disaster.

Another example includes good, old-fashioned wheat. Research has found that for every one degree Celsius rise in temperature, production of wheat is set to fall by six percent globally.

Additionally, by 2050 half of the land needed to grow two of the most dominant coffee species-Arabica (coffea arabica) and Robusta (coffea canephora)-will no longer be suitable for cultivation. For the brown bean addicts out there, imagine your world without coffee, or coffee that costs four times than what it does now.

And then there's wine. A controversial study has revealed that by 2050, major wine-producing regions will no longer be able to support viticulture (the cultivation of grapevines). In fact, we can expect a loss of 25 to 75 percent of current wine-producing land. RIP French Wines. RIP Napa Valley.

Regional impacts of a warming world

I mentioned earlier that the two degrees Celcius of climate warming is just an average, that some areas will become much hotter than just two degrees. Unfortunately, the regions that will most suffer from higher temperatures are also those where we grow most of our food-particularly nations located between the Earth's 30th-45th longitudes.

Moreover, developing countries are also going to be among the worst hit by this warming. According to William Cline, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, an increase of two to four degrees Celcius can lead to losses of food harvests of around 20-25 percent in Africa and Latin America, and 30 percent or more in India.

Overall, climate change could cause an 18 percent drop in world food production by 2050, just as the global community needs to produce at least 50 percent more food by 2050 ( according to the World Bank) than we do today. Keep in mind that right now we're already using 80 percent of the world's arable land-the size of South America-and we would have to farm a landmass equivalent to the size of Brazil to feed the rest of our future population-land we don't have today and in the future.

Food-fuelled geopolitics and instability

A funny thing happens when food shortages or extreme price spikes occur: people tend to become rather emotional and some become downright uncivil. The first thing that happens afterward usually includes a run to the grocery markets where people buy up and hoard all available food products. After that, two different scenarios play out:

In developed countries, voters raise a huff and the government steps in to provide food relief through rationing until food supplies bought in the international markets bring things back to normal. Meanwhile, in developing countries, where the government doesn't have the resources to buy or produce more food for its people, voters start protesting, then they start rioting. If the food shortage continues for more than a week or two, the protests and rioting can become deadly.

Flare-ups of these kinds pose a serious threat to global security, as they are breeding grounds for instability that can spread to neighboring countries where food is better managed. However, in the long term, this global food instability will lead to shifts in the global balance of power.

For example, as climate change progresses, there won't just be losers; there will also be a few winners. In particular, Canada, Russia, and a few Scandinavian countries will actually benefit from climate change, as their once-frozen tundras will thaw out to free huge regions for farming. Now we'll make the crazy assumption that Canada and the Scandinavian states won't become military and geopolitical powerhouses anytime this century, so that leaves Russia with a very powerful card to play.

Think about it from the Russian perspective. It's the world's largest country. It will be one of the few landmasses that will actually increase its agricultural output just when its surrounding neighbors in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia suffer from climate change-induced food shortages. It has the military and the nuclear arsenal to protect its food bounty. And after the world fully shifts to electric vehicles by the late 2030s-cutting the country's oil revenues-Russia will be desperate to exploit any newfound revenue at its disposal. If executed well, this could be Russia's once-in-a-century chance to regain its status as a world superpower, since while we can live without oil, we can't live without food.

Of course, Russia won't be able to completely ride roughshod over the world. All the great regions of the world will also play their unique hands in the new world climate change will carve out. But to think all this commotion is due to something as basic as food!

(Side note: you can also read our more detailed overview of Russian, climate change geopolitics.)

The looming population bomb

But as much as climate change will play a dominant role in the future of food, so too will another equally seismic trend: the demographics of our growing global population. By 2040, the world's population will grow to nine billion. But it's not so much the number of hungry mouths that will be the problem; it's the nature of their appetites. And that's the topic of part two of this series on the future of food!

Future of Food Series
Vegetarians will reign supreme after the Meat Shock of 2035 | Future of Food P2 GMOs vs Superfoods | Future of Food P3 Smart vs Vertical Farms | Future of Food P4 Your Future Diet: Bugs, In-Vitro Meat, and Synthetic Foods | Future of Food P5

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When it comes to the plants and animals we eat, our media tends to focus on how it’s made, how much it costs, or how to prepare it using excessive layers of bacon and unnecessary coatings of deep fry batter. Rarely, however, does our media talk about the actual availability of food. For most people, that’s more of a Third World problem. Sadly, that won’t be the case by the 2040s. By then, food scarcity will become a major global issue, one that will have a massive impact on our diets.