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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.

    A Deeper Dive 
    Contact Co-Chairs:  Abani PradhanErin Duru

Featured Work

Sustainable Food Systems Lecture Series

Sustainable Food Systems Lecture Series

Register for 2023 Talks

Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

$41M FDA Cooperative Agreement to Support JIFSAN

Helps continue a broad range of food safety initiatives

A Recipe to Feed the World

Growing Smarter, Simpler, Solutions for Food and Nutrition Security

Momentum Summer 2022 story

Fruit and Seed Development

UMD study provides insight into how flowering plants develop fruits and seeds

Research results could allow agriculturists to optimize productivity

Extension Food & Nutrition Resources

University of Maryland Extension

Food and Nutrition Information
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