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How does money flow through the food system? How can we price in externalities of food production across food groups (i.e. consumption of sugar, salt, and fat) to accelerate a food transformation and understand the economic dynamics without making food unaffordable for most people?
Developing the food system needs to be done in an economically sustainable way that enables a healthier, safe, and environmentally responsible food environment. Understanding the value chains of the food economy can help to engineer healthy food economies at a community, city, country, and global level. By not pricing in externalities to some degree, we […]
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How can we reduce the cost of healthy food, the marketing of unhealthy food, and improve food literacy to support better diet quality for all people?
The majority of global food calories are supplied by just a handful of crops (wheat, corn, rice, and soya), even as the environmental damage of intensive monoculture production and health problems caused by inadequate nutrition are well known. Inefficiencies across product value chains exist because of poor infrastructure, high production costs, limited transport and access, […]
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How do we incentivize/reward individual farmers and land managers to optimally use their land to achieve local, regional, national, and international targets to produce the right balance of foods in the most sustainable way?
There is an increasing need to provide nutritious food at lower environmental impact for more people in the years ahead. Efforts have been taken to translate high-level aims of achieving sustainable, healthy diets and net-zero carbon farming into granular advice and incentives for farmers, growers, and land managers. Markets alone cannot be relied on to […]
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What data can be collected to understand and map the spatial distribution of food insecurity within cities and countries to target resources where they are needed most?
Worldwide hunger and lack of access to healthy diets affect over 3 billion people. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to exacerbate and create further food insecurity. Despite the nutrition needed across cities and countries, 14% of the world's food is lost before reaching the market, food waste results in a $400 billion loss per year, and […]
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What changes to my individual or family eating/food purchasing habits will contribute most to improving food system sustainability and my personal/family health?
High-level advice about what we should eat is often disconnected from choices made by everyday people who seek to integrate good eating strategies with working, playing, learning, relaxing, and socializing practices. Data (and decision support tools) could help stakeholders make more sustainable, healthier choices, tailored to current diets, preferences, regions.
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How are policies to shift dietary patterns towards sustainable and healthy diets influenced, viewed, and acted upon by the public? How should the public sector promote positive behavior, learning, and health, especially for children and the elderly?
A central obstacle to making progress on healthy and sustainable diets is political stasis; too few effective policies are passed. Prior work has diagnosed this stasis as a result of profit-motivated industry actions coupled with low demand among the public for oversight. However, studies have also expressed optimism that sufficient public demand can be generated […]
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Why must we rethink governance to transform food systems?
At every level of decision-making (government policy, corporate, producer organizations, NGO, academia, capital markets, etc.) we need to change the mix of people brought together to make decisions—what is more commonly known as inclusiveness. True inclusiveness extends beyond consultations and superficial outreach: it is about who sits on boards and governance structures so as to […]
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What would be the impact of implementing decent working conditions in food supply chains on consumer food prices?
One primary argument against implementing living wages and decent working conditions in food supply chains is that it would be too costly for consumers, particularly low-income consumers. Assessing the development of consumers as the driving force for changes in food systems can pinpoint market opportunities for environmentally-friendly production and fair labor practices. Currently, the extent […]
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How do national and local healthy diet food policies impact the demographics of people and the rate of chronic food-related diseases (i.e. diabetes, hypertension, or obesity)?
Chronic food-related diseases are considered by the WHO as a modern epidemic. They contribute to the increase of the death rate and imply an exponential national budget expenditure on health treatments for the manifestations of poor diet habits. Comparing the chronic food-related diseases rate of the population of each country with its respective specific policies […]
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What strategies have led to actionable steps for healthier and more sustainable consumption patterns?
The 'why and how' of healthy, sustainable eating is communicated from a rather abstract risk perspective. It is unknown which policy levers (e.g. public health messaging or processed food taxes) and behavioral nudges have achieved positive changes, and to what extent in order to support data-backed actions for helping us make more sustainable, healthier choices.
