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The system encompasses everything from the processing, packaging and the transporting of food to consumers. Currently, these systems are not efficient or sustainable, and in 2022, about Skip to ...
May 20, 2020 · The contribution of foods and food systems to social identity, community values, tradition, and culture must also be considered, because sustainable diets need to be healthy, affordable, and socially acceptable per the FAO's definition (8, 51). In addition to these factors, the social domain also includes moral and ethical considerations related to topics such as intergenerational ...
- Adam Drewnowski, John Finley, Julie M Hess, John Ingram, Gregory Miller, Christian Peters
- 10.1093/cdn/nzaa083
- 2020
- Curr Dev Nutr. 2020 Jun; 4(6): nzaa083.
The food system is a complex web of activities involving the production, processing, transport, and consumption. Issues concerning the food system include the governance and economics of food production, its sustainability, the degree to which we waste food, how food production affects the natural environment and the impact of food on individual and population health.
Food systems are the public policy decisions; the national and global systems and supply chains; and the individuals and groups – public and private – that influence what we eat. They are important for two key reasons: What we eat – our diets – is one of the biggest drivers of health and well-being. This is especially the case for children.
A sustainable food system is a type of food system that provides healthy food to people and creates sustainable environmental, economic, and social systems that surround food. Sustainable food systems start with the development of sustainable agricultural practices, development of more sustainable food distribution systems, creation of ...
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).
Jul 20, 2019 · The EAT-Lancet Commission1 aims to define healthy global diets that avoid environmental degradation. It adopts the planetary boundaries concept to define “a safe operating space for humanity”2,3 or more prosaically “global biophysical limits that humanity should operate within to ensure a stable and resilient Earth system”.1 However, the scientific analysis is obfuscated when two ...
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