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Industry, research and public action needed for healthy, sustainable diet shifts
Large-scale dietary shifts over the past 70 years reveal combined scientific, technological, political and cultural innovations drive transformations in food systems.
15 April 2021, Penang, MALAYSIA – New research has found coordinated, cross-sector policies, investments, and innovations are key to large-scale shifts in food production and consumption, and will be essential to meet the global call to transform food systems toward diets that are healthy for both people and planet.
Published in Nature Food, the study analyzed the drivers that led to large national dietary shifts toward milk, farmed Tilapia, and chicken over the past 70 years and identified pathways in the food system that led to transformation. Results suggest rapid uptake of new foods at large scales is possible with combined public policy leadership and private-sector technological innovation alongside consumers who cultura
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Early COVID-19 responses in the seafood sector offer crucial lessons for dealing with future shocks in food systems.
New research examines disruptions from COVID-19 to the seafood sector and puts forth evidence-based recommendations for building future resilience in food systems.
17 February, 2021, Penang, MALAYSIA - New research on the impacts of COVID-19 disruptions to a highly globalized seafood sector reveals crucial lessons for making food systems more resilient in the face of future shocks, limiting threats to global food and nutrition security, and their negative impact on livelihoods and local economies.
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Global Food Security, the study outlines a food system resilience ‘action cycle’ framework to explore three central issues: 1) the impact of COVID-19 on seafood systems at different levels; 2) the types of responses and actions to restore critical systems functions; and 3) distil critical learnings from current and past sh