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Modeling Food Systems

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When enough food is produced but sizable fractions of the population suffer from malnutrition or are overweight, it is time to get a better understanding of the global food system. This chapter introduces food systems and food security as timely research topics for Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE).

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Acknowledgements

Much of the work presented in this chapter was inspired by discussions at the weekly seminars of the SAMSI Working Group on Food Systems during the academic year 2017–2018. The authors thank professor Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College), who planted the seeds of our interest in food systems and contributed to an earlier draft of the chapter. The authors also thank the anonymous referees of this and an earlier version of the chapter for insightful comments and encouraging remarks.

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Kaper, H.G., Engler, H. (2019). Modeling Food Systems. In: Kaper, H., Roberts, F. (eds) Mathematics of Planet Earth. Mathematics of Planet Earth, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22044-0_10

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