Concise and thoughtful points about the future of food
A few take aways from day 2 of the UN Food Systems Summit: - Today’s Food Systems are designed to deliver on quantity, instead of nutritional value, planet or people considerations. Significant investments are needed to shift this, and both the public and private sectors are expected to contribute. - Subsidides for agriculture throughout the world are enormous and need to be repurposed, to make sure we are subsidizing solutions that deliver on healthy diets, on planet and on people. - To make Food Systems resilient, we need to diversify the world’s plates and move away from the 12crops and 5animal species (!) that dominate today’s world diets. We need to make food less boring, connect it to local contexts, local crops and local boundaries. - It is clearly defined what a healthy diet is from a scientific perspective. At the same time, people’s perceptions of what a “healthy diet” and a “sustainable diet” are, are not aligned and very different. We need to work together on sharing a better understanding and knowledge on these with everyone. - Food is personal and everyone’s business. Access to adequate food is a human right. Looking forward to more insights and ideas for action during the 3rd day of the summit. #UNFSS #foodsystems #SDGs #regenerativeagriculture #peopleandplanet #UNFSS2023 #sustainability #betterfood #betternutrition #people #planet #transformation #agriculture #globalgoals
