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Food, health, and sustainability have an interconnective and reciprocated system that is influenced by the cultural traditions, environmental contexts, and the impact of transformations over time. The SDG-2 has stressed extractions of hunger while achieving food security, improved nutrition, and sustainable agriculture. These interlinkages have several networks and niches, which are examined and appraised in different regions, in various ways, through many approaches. This small chapter presents some of the examples of such scenarios and synthesises the contradictions of the emerging dimensions as raised in the present anthology. Also illustrated here are the notable contributions in this field by (late) Prof. R. B. Singh (1955–2021), who passed away while this work was in process; this way, this book is a memorial tribute to him.
We are all in a life-and-death contest, we are told, between growing numbers of people and [a] limited amount of food. We are in a race and some must inevitably lose. The implicit message is that not everyone will have enough to eat. And how will we come out? (Lappé and Collins 1978, p. 4).
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Singh, R.P.B. (2023). Appraising Visioning Sustainability for a Healthy and Happy Future. In: Grover, A., Singh, A., Singh, R.B. (eds) Sustainable Health Through Food, Nutrition, and Lifestyle. Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7230-0_1
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