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This internationally recognized academic work provides a comprehensive, critical, and interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary challenges related to food security, nutritional epidemiology, and public policies on food and nutrition. Based on updated data, international legal frameworks, and robust scientific evidence, the book addresses topics such as food insecurity, nutritional transition, population obesity, chronic undernutrition, sustainable agri-food systems, and the human rights to adequate food. Aimed at public health professionals, nutritionists, epidemiologists, social policy managers, researchers, and graduate students, the content offers a critical reading of the impacts of food globalization, the limitations of ultra-processed food industry regulation, and the alternatives proposed by agroecology, food education, and intersectoral governance. By integrating nutritional surveillance, artificial intelligence applied to population nutrition, food sovereignty, cultural diversity of food systems, and strategies for the future of global healthy eating, this publication constitutes an essential tool for understanding and transforming the course of nutrition policies in the 21st century.

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