Global food systems transformation goals have called for food that is healthy to humans
Stakeholders in the Ghanaian food system have proffered solutions to dealing with the myriad of challenges militating against the country’s agricultural sector, with dire implications for food security.
This was part of the United Nations (UN) global goal of ensuring a resilient global food system.
The food system entails agricultural production, food transport and trade, food retail and provision, and food transformation. The Dialogue is in preparation for the UN Food System Summit slated for September 2021.
The UN Food Systems Summit is part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Forming the participants were stakeholders from government, academia, the media, the private sector, and development partners.
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UB researchers release major U.N. report on food systems planning
FAO report contributors include from left, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah (UB), Amani Ishemo (University of Technology, Jamaica), Avery Sirwatka (undergraduate student researcher, UB Food Lab), and Yeeli Mui (Johns Hopkins University/UB).
Samina Raja, PhD, director
UB Food Lab
BUFFALO, N.Y. Researchers from the University at Buffalo were the driving force behind the publication today of a major report that details strategies local governments in low- and middle-income countries can use to create more innovative and equitable community food systems.
The 164-page report titled “Local government planning for community food systems” was published today by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a United Nations agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
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14/12/2020
14 December, 2020, Rome – To address the multiple burdens of hunger and malnutrition, the spotlight must be shifted to agri-food systems that not only produce more food for the world’s fast-growing population but also provide access to affordable healthy and nutritious, and foods for all. This was a key takeaway from a FAO webinar on “Raising levels of Nutrition” which was held today.
In his opening remarks, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said that FAO’s vision for nutrition is “a world where all people are eating healthy diets from sustainable agri-food systems”.
“For decades hunger has been addressed by policies that aimed to increase food production, especially of staple crops with less focus on the production of these nutritious foods”, Qu said highlighting the growing need for increased production and investing more in the production of more nutritious foods and putting policies in place to make them more accessible and affordable .To th