The aim of this paper is to understand whether an integrated approach that incorporates the ideas of planners, urban designers, landscape architects, health professionals and the food industry could improve food security.

Long-term food demand scenarios are an important tool for studying global food security and for analysing the environmental impacts of agriculture.

Sustainable design and planning could play increasingly important roles in creating food efficient built environments of the future. This paper reviews design approaches and emerging theories in food efficient of design and planning for built environments.

This presentation aims to address the issues of rural residential development in food production. it will outline these various food production areas with reference to case studies and photos from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States of America.

This paper builds on and updates an overview paper released by Future Directions International in 2011 on the topic of Global Food Losses and Waste, the result of a series of workshop discussion on the subject of ‘Global Food Supply and Demand to 2050’.