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Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? (Johns Hopkins Wavelengths)
How can consumers, nations, and international organizations work together to improve food systems before our planet loses its ability to sustain itself and its people?Do we have the right to eat wrongly?As the world's agricultural, environmental, and nutritional needs intersect—and often collide—how... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Global Food Systems, Diets, and Nutrition: Linking Science, Economics, and Policy (Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy)
Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues. To achieve food security for all and protect health, we need functional, equitable, and sustainable food systems. Food systems are highly complex networks of individuals and inst... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Diversifying Food and Diets: Using Agricultural Biodiversity to Improve Nutrition and Health (Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity)
Currently 868 million people are undernourished and 195 million children under five years of age are stunted. At the same time, over 1 billion people are overweight and obese in both the developed and developing world. Diseases previously associated with affluence, such as cancer, diabetes and cardi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Steven James • Christopher B. Barrett • Stephen Wood • Jessica Fanzo • Tim Benton • Roy Steiner • Shenggen Fan • Mario Herrero • Rebecca J. Nelson • Elizabeth Bageant • Edward Buckler • Karen Cooper • Isabella Culotta • Rikin Gandhi • Mark Kahn • Laté Lawson-Lartego • Jiali Liu • Quinn Marshall • Daniel Mason-D'Croz • Alexander Mathys • Cynthia Mathys • Veronica Mazariegos-Anastassiou • Alesha Miller • Kamakhya Misra • Andrew Mude • Jianbo Shen • Lindiwe Majele Sibanda • Claire Song • Philip ThorntonThis open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Agriculture for Improved Nutrition: Seizing the Momentum
by Stuart Gillespie • Amy Saltzman • Kevin Chen • Lawrence Haddad • Mathew Abraham • Prabhu L Pingali • Nicholas Nisbett • Suresh Chandra Babu • Noora-Lisa Aberman • Akhter U. Ahmed • Summer Allen • Ekin Birol • Anne Bossuyt • Howarth E. Bouis • Gerald F. • Olivier Ecker • Jessica Fanzo • Aulo Gelli • Julie Ghostlaw • Daniel O. Gilligan • Derek Headey • Mar Maestre • Hazel Malapit • William Masters • Ruthie Musker • Rajul Pandya-Lorch • Daniel J. Raiten • Marie T. Ruel • Zimeiyi Wang • Sivan YosefAgriculture's vast potential to improve nutrition is just beginning to be tapped. New ideas, research, and initiatives developed over the past decade have created an opportunity for reimagining and redesigning agricultural and food systems for the benefit of nutrition. To support this transformation... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019