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Social Justice, Food Loss, and the Sustainable Development Goals in the Era of COVID-19
Sustainability (Basel, Switzerland), v 12(12), p5027
01 Jun 2020
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Abstract
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) rest on a set of broadly accepted values within a human rights framework. The SDGs seek to improve human lives, improve the planet, and foster prosperity. This paper examines the human rights framework and the principles of social justice and shows that, while the SDGs do not specifically state that there is human right to food, the SDGs do envision a better, more just, world which rests upon the sufficiency of the global food supply, on environmental sustainability, and on food security for all. Then the paper examines the interrelationships between the SDGs, food access and waste, and human rights within a framework of social justice. Finally, it looks at the potential pandemic of hunger wrought by COVID-19, showing that COVID-19 serves as an example of a crisis that has raised unprecedented challenges to food loss and waste in the global food supply system and tests our commitment to the principles espoused by the SDGs.
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- Title
- Social Justice, Food Loss, and the Sustainable Development Goals in the Era of COVID-19
- Creators
- Janet Fleetwood - Drexel Univ, Dept Community Hlth & Prevent, Dornsife Sch Publ Hlth, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
- Publication Details
- Sustainability (Basel, Switzerland), v 12(12), p5027
- Publisher
- Mdpi
- Number of pages
- 9
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000553581900001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85087002888
- Other Identifier
- 991019168669604721
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