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Event recap | Data-informed nutrition policy and practices GeoTech Cues by the GeoTech Center
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Across the world, one in five deaths are currently associated with poor diet, which contributes to a variety of chronic and deadly diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Population level interventions that are evidence-based are crucial to lowering this burden, and can be made even more effective through innovative public-private partnerships. Solutions can include adopting current methods that incentivize environmental and social impacts of a company or group, such as the ESG criteria, which can benefit from an additional factor that includes the impact of that group on human health.
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Public investment in agriculture research and development has declined in the United States in the past decade, despite major challenges such as climate change increasingly damaging the food system. Food insecurity not only weakens the U.S. internally, but increases economic and political instability across the world, posing an additional threat to U.S. national security. It is imperative that innovation in agriculture remains a priority, and a new infusion of interest in the agriculture sector from the technology and data sector can accomplish this.
Technology has radically transformed and will continue to change the way agriculture and the complex, ill-defined networks of our food system function, both domestically and internationally. To fully leverage the power of the opportunities available and in the