Safe food: A human right amid climate change | Science

Dangerous food leads to a disease in around 600 million people and causes 420,000 deaths worldwide each year (1, 2). Diseases of food origin and death affent children under the age of 5 and residents of low -income countries (1). Access to safe and nutritious foods is included in the United Nations sustainable development objectives (non) as target 2.1, but food security is often overlooked in many national adaptation plans (3, 4). The right to adequate foods is recognized worldwide, but access to safe food is not explicitly guaranteed (5, 6). Given that access to safe food is essential to fair and sustainable food systems and climate change will exacerbate the probability of dietary diseases and deaths (2), the global community must explicitly consecrate food security as a universal human right.