Food for an Urban Planet: Challenges and Research Opportunities

Knorr, Dietrich; Khoo, Chor San Heng; Augustin, Mary Ann

Food for an Urban Planet: Challenges and Research Opportunities

dc.contributor.author	Knorr, Dietrich
dc.contributor.author	Khoo, Chor San Heng
dc.contributor.author	Augustin, Mary Ann
dc.date.accessioned	2019-11-28T13:13:10Z
dc.date.available	2019-11-28T13:13:10Z
dc.date.issued	2018-01-19
dc.date.updated	2019-10-04T02:03:04Z
dc.description.abstract	In 2014, Khoo and Knorr (1) identified the global shift in population demographics as one of the twenty-first century grand challenges, which warrants research prioritization by the food and nutrition communities. A persistent global growth trend toward urbanization can be attributed to this demographic shift. Satterthwaite et al. (2) characterized urbanization as “the increasing share of a nation’s population living in urban areas (and thus a declining share living in rural areas)” and stated that “Most urbanization is the result of net rural to urban migration, decline in rural population and gain in urban populations giving rise to megacities.” The global urban population is projected to increase by 1.84% per year between 2015 and 2020, by 1.63% between 2020 and 2025, and by 1.44% between 2025 and 2030. In 2016, 54% of the global population resided in urban areas; this is expected to rise to 60% by 2030, meaning that one in every three people will live in cities with more than half a million inhabitants. Meanwhile, the rural population is projected to decline from 45 to 40% between 2016 and 2030 (3) (Table 1). By 2050, more than 6.5 billion of the expected 9.6 billion global population will live in megacities with 10 million or more inhabitants, meaning that nearly two out of three individuals will be city dwellers (4–7).	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2296-861X
dc.identifier.uri	https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/10407
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9359
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	en
dc.subject.ddc	630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche	de
dc.subject.other	food systems	en
dc.subject.other	food challenge	en
dc.subject.other	food	en
dc.subject.other	nutrition	en
dc.subject.other	health	en
dc.subject.other	urbanization	en
dc.subject.other	food chain	en
dc.subject.other	nutrient	en
dc.subject.other	water security	en
dc.subject.other	sustainability	en
dc.subject.other	safety	en
dc.subject.other	appropriate food production	en
dc.subject.other	appropriate food processing	en
dc.title	Food for an Urban Planet: Challenges and Research Opportunities	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.type.version	publishedVersion	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber	73	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi	10.3389/fnut.2017.00073	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle	Frontiers in Nutrition	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername	Frontiers Media S.A.	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Lausanne	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume	4	en
tub.accessrights.dnb	free	en
tub.affiliation	Fak. 3 Prozesswissenschaften::Inst. Lebensmitteltechnologie und Lebensmittelchemie::FG Lebensmittelbiotechnologie und -prozesstechnik	de
tub.affiliation.faculty	Fak. 3 Prozesswissenschaften	de
tub.affiliation.group	FG Lebensmittelbiotechnologie und -prozesstechnik	de
tub.affiliation.institute	Inst. Lebensmitteltechnologie und Lebensmittelchemie	de
tub.publisher.universityorinstitution	Technische Universität Berlin	en