The risk of recurrent outbreaks following the main waves of a pandemic has been acknowledged. We provide evidence of the scale and duration of this outbreak risk. We compile municipal public health records and use national data to model the stochastic process of mortality rates after the main...

The concept of food security has been undergoing many changes during the last 50 years and today it is widely acknowledged to mean much more than physical availability of food on the market in proportion to population. The world produces more food per inhabitant today than ever before. FAO’s...