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Towards More Sustainable Food Systems—14 Lessons Learned
Food production, processing, distribution and consumption are among the major contributors to global environmental change. At the same time, food systems need to effectively respond to the demands of a growing world population, and already today many communities and individuals are affected by food...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32512933 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114005 |
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description | Food production, processing, distribution and consumption are among the major contributors to global environmental change. At the same time, food systems need to effectively respond to the demands of a growing world population, and already today many communities and individuals are affected by food insecurity. Moving towards sustainable food value chains is one of the greatest and most complex challenges of this century. To explore promising solutions and specific problems in this context, and to discuss achieved progress, this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health was initiated. The publications enrich our knowledge about essential changes required in the food systems, such as more effective food distribution, avoidance or valorisation of food waste and less meat consumption. Knowing what to change and knowing how to actually achieve such change are two different themes. It becomes evident that there is still an incomplete picture regarding how innovations in the food system can be strengthened to catalyse transformations at a larger scale. Grassroot initiatives require more supporting efforts to effectively influence policies, and the lack of coordination among civil society initiates must be overcome. Sustainability-oriented companies in food supply chains also have a major role to play. |
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spelling | pubmed-73128042020-06-26 Towards More Sustainable Food Systems—14 Lessons Learned Kusch-Brandt, Sigrid Int J Environ Res Public Health Editorial Food production, processing, distribution and consumption are among the major contributors to global environmental change. At the same time, food systems need to effectively respond to the demands of a growing world population, and already today many communities and individuals are affected by food insecurity. Moving towards sustainable food value chains is one of the greatest and most complex challenges of this century. To explore promising solutions and specific problems in this context, and to discuss achieved progress, this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health was initiated. The publications enrich our knowledge about essential changes required in the food systems, such as more effective food distribution, avoidance or valorisation of food waste and less meat consumption. Knowing what to change and knowing how to actually achieve such change are two different themes. It becomes evident that there is still an incomplete picture regarding how innovations in the food system can be strengthened to catalyse transformations at a larger scale. Grassroot initiatives require more supporting efforts to effectively influence policies, and the lack of coordination among civil society initiates must be overcome. Sustainability-oriented companies in food supply chains also have a major role to play. MDPI 2020-06-04 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7312804/ /pubmed/32512933 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114005 Text en © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Editorial Kusch-Brandt, Sigrid Towards More Sustainable Food Systems—14 Lessons Learned |
title | Towards More Sustainable Food Systems—14 Lessons Learned |
title_full | Towards More Sustainable Food Systems—14 Lessons Learned |
title_fullStr | Towards More Sustainable Food Systems—14 Lessons Learned |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards More Sustainable Food Systems—14 Lessons Learned |
title_short | Towards More Sustainable Food Systems—14 Lessons Learned |
title_sort | towards more sustainable food systems—14 lessons learned |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32512933 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114005 |
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