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Sustainable food systems have been argued to be central to many [1] or all [2] 17 Sustainable Development Goals. [3] Moving to sustainable food systems, including via shifting consumption to sustainable diets, is an important component of addressing the causes of climate change and adapting to it.
In 2014, the FAO/WHO Second International Conference on Nutrition placed sustainable diets and transformation of food systems as focuses of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016–2025. [11] In 2019, the FAO and WHO collaborated once again to develop a set of guidelines for sustainable diets and their implementation worldwide.
In the U.S., the food system emits four of the greenhouse gases associated with climate change: carbon dioxide (CO 2), methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons. [13] The burning of fossil fuels (such as oil and gasoline) to power vehicles that transport food for long distances by air, ship, truck and rail releases carbon dioxide, the ...
A Government spokesperson said: “Our cross-Government food strategy will make sure our food system can continue to feed the nation, realise its potential for economic growth, protect the planet ...
Climate change is projected to negatively affect all four pillars of food security. It will affect how much food is available. It will also affect how easy food is to access through prices, food quality, and how stable the food system is. [111] Climate change is already affecting the productivity of wheat and other staples. [112] [113]
Food aversions can be an issue from a health standpoint, but they don't necessarily need to be problematic, dietitian Jessica Cording, author of The Little Book of Game Changers, tells Yahoo Life ...
A global food emissions database shows that food systems are responsible for one third of the global anthropogenic GHG emissions. [17] [18] Moreover, there can be competition for resources, such as land, between growing crops for human consumption and growing crops for animals, also referred to as "food vs. feed" (see also: food security). [19 ...
All of our biological systems for regulating energy, hunger and satiety get thrown off by eating foods that are high in sugar, low in fiber and injected with additives. And which now, shockingly, make up 60 percent of the calories we eat. Draining this poison from our trillion-dollar food system is not going to happen quickly or easily.