Food and water security and safety for an ever-expanding human population

Abstract

The growing human population creates challenges not only related to the epidemiology of disease in highly populated spaces, but also on how to guarantee the access to safe food and water. Besides health effects of dehydration and emaciation, this chapter will explore the challenge of the growing need for food and water resources for an expanding human population accompanied by environmental degradation, increased habitat loss and interface with wildlife, and their roles as vector of diseases potentiated by limited access and increased demand. The interaction between these factors will be explored in the context of One Health.