Environmentally-Conscious Supply Chain Design in Support of Food Security

Abstract

There are now more than one billion undernourished people worldwide, and almost all of them live in developing countries (FAO, 2009). This makes hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to global healthgreater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined (http://www.wfp.org/hunger/faqs). This condition, termed "food insecurity," is a humanitarian crisis compounded by imminent population growth. The global population is expected to increase from the current 6.8 billion to 9.1 billion by the year 2050, with