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Establish a Healthy Food System and Ensure Global Food and Nutritional Security

Establish a Healthy Food System and Ensure Global Food and Nutritional Security

  • Improve human health and well-being by increasing availability and access of safe and nutritious food with the goal of healthy food consumption.
  • Encourage creativity and entrepreneurship in the production and processing of safe and nutritious food.
  • Inform food safety and food security policy based on sound basic and applied research.
  • Utilize food resource management education as a mechanism to increase food access and healthy food consumption.

Featured Work

Sustainable Food Systems Lecture Series

Sustainable Food Systems Lecture Series

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Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Ensuring a safe, wholesome food supply

A Recipe to Feed the World

Cultivating the Future

Momentum Winter 2024 story

Fruit and Seed Development

UMD Researcher Receives $300,000 Grant to Solve Shelf Life Problems in One of America’s Most Popular Apple

Macarena Farcuh will study potential treatments to reduce cold storage damage i…

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