ABSTRACT
Food insecurity is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is a complex concept, describing the deprivation of people from vulnerable groups across the globe. Food security first emerged as a concept in the 1940s and is widely used in designing, implementing and evaluating humanitarian emergency and development policies and programs. Overcoming food insecurity and improving nutrition requires comprehensive policies, legislation, programmes, service delivery and monitoring. Transdisciplinarity is an emerging science that offers innovative methodologies for high-impact science through understanding and taking action on complex societal problems that can no longer be approached and solved by mono-disciplinary approaches only. Food security training, therefore, demands a radically different approach to teaching, learning and researching than traditionally happens in institutions of higher learning and research. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
