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Transforming Food Systems: The Missing Pieces Needed to Make Them Work
Food systems lie squarely at the intersection of several overarching goals of the UN and member states, as embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals, including eliminating poverty, hunger, and malnutrition in all its forms, achieving good health and well-being, while promoting environmental sust...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7810509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33501403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa177 |
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author | Kennedy, Eileen Webb, Patrick Block, Steven Griffin, Timothy Mozaffarian, Dariush Kyte, Rachel |
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description | Food systems lie squarely at the intersection of several overarching goals of the UN and member states, as embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals, including eliminating poverty, hunger, and malnutrition in all its forms, achieving good health and well-being, while promoting environmental sustainability. The need for radical transformation of current food systems is inescapable if the world is to achieve one, let alone all, of these goals. Meeting this challenge will inevitably be disruptive to current food systems, carry costs, and be politically onerous. But the projected benefits far outweigh these difficulties. This commentary spells out the complexity of issues that need to be tackled to design and implement food systems that improve diets, nutrition, and health in an equitable fashion, while simultaneously respecting planetary boundaries. Six critical domains are identified that must be addressed for the successful transformation of food systems: 1) reinvent agriculture, 2) transform food environments for healthy diets, 3) mitigate climate change, 4) productively engage the private sector, 5) influence public policy priorities, and 6) establish true cost accounting of food. Because science is crucial for each of these domains, a research-driven strategy, emphasizing a collaborative process, is outlined. Bold, new, but technically and politically feasible actions are needed to effectively transform current food systems. |
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spelling | pubmed-78105092021-01-25 Transforming Food Systems: The Missing Pieces Needed to Make Them Work Kennedy, Eileen Webb, Patrick Block, Steven Griffin, Timothy Mozaffarian, Dariush Kyte, Rachel Curr Dev Nutr PERSPECTIVES AND OPINIONS Food systems lie squarely at the intersection of several overarching goals of the UN and member states, as embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals, including eliminating poverty, hunger, and malnutrition in all its forms, achieving good health and well-being, while promoting environmental sustainability. The need for radical transformation of current food systems is inescapable if the world is to achieve one, let alone all, of these goals. Meeting this challenge will inevitably be disruptive to current food systems, carry costs, and be politically onerous. But the projected benefits far outweigh these difficulties. This commentary spells out the complexity of issues that need to be tackled to design and implement food systems that improve diets, nutrition, and health in an equitable fashion, while simultaneously respecting planetary boundaries. Six critical domains are identified that must be addressed for the successful transformation of food systems: 1) reinvent agriculture, 2) transform food environments for healthy diets, 3) mitigate climate change, 4) productively engage the private sector, 5) influence public policy priorities, and 6) establish true cost accounting of food. Because science is crucial for each of these domains, a research-driven strategy, emphasizing a collaborative process, is outlined. Bold, new, but technically and politically feasible actions are needed to effectively transform current food systems. Oxford University Press 2020-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7810509/ /pubmed/33501403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa177 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society for Nutrition. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | PERSPECTIVES AND OPINIONS Kennedy, Eileen Webb, Patrick Block, Steven Griffin, Timothy Mozaffarian, Dariush Kyte, Rachel Transforming Food Systems: The Missing Pieces Needed to Make Them Work |
title | Transforming Food Systems: The Missing Pieces Needed to Make Them Work |
title_full | Transforming Food Systems: The Missing Pieces Needed to Make Them Work |
title_fullStr | Transforming Food Systems: The Missing Pieces Needed to Make Them Work |
title_full_unstemmed | Transforming Food Systems: The Missing Pieces Needed to Make Them Work |
title_short | Transforming Food Systems: The Missing Pieces Needed to Make Them Work |
title_sort | transforming food systems: the missing pieces needed to make them work |
topic | PERSPECTIVES AND OPINIONS |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7810509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33501403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa177 |
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