SUSTAINABLE FAMILY WELL-BEING AMID SOCIO ECONOMIC CHANGES AND CHALLENGES THROUGH FOOD SAFETY AND NUTRITION

Christianah A. Olurankinse,

Department of Home Economics,

Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo.

Email: christieolurks@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

This paper creates awareness on the contributions of Food Security and Nutrition on sustainability of family well-being despite chronic socio economic changes and challenges in our society today. It extracts information from the frontiers of knowledge through web-search, magazines, journals, text books while personal observations were also stressed. It examines the present socio economic conditions of present Nigerians as well as the challenges facing them. It discusses the concept of food security and nutrition. It emphasizes the positive solutions to sustain family members in Nigeria through food security and nutrition in order to foster their well-being. Furthermore, the factors that could facilitate food security and nutrition to enhance socio economic status of Nigerians were discussed. Finally, recommendations were made to sustain family well- being.

Keywords: Sustainable, wellbeing, socioeconomic, food security, nutrition.