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Food systems embrace the entire range of actors and their interlinked value-adding activities involved in the production, aggregation, processing, distribution, consumption, and disposal (loss or waste) of food products that originate from agriculture (incl. livestock), forestry, fisheries, and food industries, and the broader economic, societal, and natural environments in which they are ...
The food system wheel framework is centred around FAO’s main goals, which include poverty reduction, food security and nutrition (Figure 1). These are embedded in the broader performance of the system, referring to the three dimensions of sustainability: economic, social, and environmental (elaborated in the next section).
Oct 15, 2021 · Food systems must serve different societal, public health and individual nutrition, and environmental objectives and therefore face numerous challenges. Considering the integrated performances of food systems, this paper highlights five fundamental paradigm shifts that are required to overcome trade-offs and build synergies between health and nutrition, inclusive livelihoods, environmental ...
- Ruerd Ruben, Romina Cavatassi, Leslie Lipper, Eric Smaling, Paul Winters
- 2021
Jul 23, 2021 · Food systems have a key role to play in ensuring people's access to regular, nutritious food despite these factors. These challenges show little sign of let-up If you consider what happened with COVID-19 in terms of food systems, supply chain disruptions, what is still happening in terms of unemployment, and rising food prices , you can see the impact on the number of people who are suffering ...
Serving billions of meals every day, the food service sector has the opportunity to drive transformational impact and transition diets by enabling consumers to choose and eat sustainable meals in many parts of the world. This report identifies the most effective levers and actions that food service organisations can take to accelerate the shift ...
proach to food policy.The food system is the interconnected system of everything and everybody that influences, and is influenced by, the activities involved in bringing food from f. rm to fork a. beyond. It includes: the chain of activities fro. roducer to consumer; the factors that influence the chain of activities and are influenced by it ...
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Sep 15, 2021 · Metrics. For fruitful deliberations and concerted action at the science–politics interface, the concepts of food systems and drivers of change need to be clearly understood and employed by all ...
