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  2. Food system - Wikipedia

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    The term food system describes the interconnected systems and processes that influence nutrition, food, health, community development, and agriculture.A food system includes all processes and infrastructure involved in feeding a population: growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consumption, distribution, and disposal of food and food-related items.

  3. Food and Agriculture Organization - Wikipedia

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    FAO has carried out projects in over 25 countries and inter-agency missions in nearly 60, scaled up its monitoring through the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture, provided policy advice to governments while supporting their efforts to increase food production, and advocated for more investment in agriculture as ...

  4. Agrifood systems - Wikipedia

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    Agrifood systems emissions in 2021. To feed a world population forecast to reach 9.7 billion in 2050, [18] FAO estimates that agriculture may need to produce 40–54 percent more food, feed and biofuel feedstock than in 2012, depending on the scenario. [19]

  5. Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems - Wikipedia

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    GIAHS: Rice Terraces in Southern Mountainous and Hilly areas, China. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads the programme Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), which helps identify ways to mitigate threats faced by these systems and their people and enhance the benefits derived from these dynamic systems.

  6. United Nations Decade of Family Farming - Wikipedia

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    The UNDFF seeks to address the need for a global food system that provides sufficient, affordable, and nutritious food while accounting for climate change and the growing population. [4] According to FAO, by the year 2050, the world's agricultural production will need to increase by about 50% in order to feed the growing population. [7]

  7. Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical ...

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    FAOSTAT serves as the foremost authoritative source of agrifood systems data, including food security, agriculture and nutrition; agriculture production and trade; prices of commodities; investment; population and employment in agrifood systems; food and diet; land, inputs and sustainability, climate change and agrifood systems emissions; structural data on agriculture; and it includes data ...

  8. Food distribution - Wikipedia

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    The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) considers food distribution as a subset of the food system. [1] The process and methodology behind food distribution varies by location. Food distribution has been a defining characteristic of human behavior in all societies, and recordings of food distribution date back for thousands of years. Most ...

  9. Corinna Hawkes - Wikipedia

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    Corinna Hawkes is a specialist in food systems. She is Director, Division of Food Systems and Food Safety for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Between 2016 and 2023 she was Director, Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London. She is also co-founder of the Next Gen(D)eration Leadership Collective.