Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems

Food systems are facing a global crisis. Most countries are falling behind rather than progressing toward achieving the seven global nutrition targets set for 2030, while unsustainable food production and consumption patterns have contributed to depletion and pollution of natural resources and clima...

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Autores principales: Pastorino, Silvia, Backlund, Ulrika, Bellanca, Raffaella, Hunter, Danny, Kaljonen, Minna, Singh, Samrat, Vargas, Melissa, Bundy, Donal
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162798
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author Pastorino, Silvia
Backlund, Ulrika
Bellanca, Raffaella
Hunter, Danny
Kaljonen, Minna
Singh, Samrat
Vargas, Melissa
Bundy, Donal
author_browse Backlund, Ulrika
Bellanca, Raffaella
Bundy, Donal
Hunter, Danny
Kaljonen, Minna
Pastorino, Silvia
Singh, Samrat
Vargas, Melissa
author_facet Pastorino, Silvia
Backlund, Ulrika
Bellanca, Raffaella
Hunter, Danny
Kaljonen, Minna
Singh, Samrat
Vargas, Melissa
Bundy, Donal
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description Food systems are facing a global crisis. Most countries are falling behind rather than progressing toward achieving the seven global nutrition targets set for 2030, while unsustainable food production and consumption patterns have contributed to depletion and pollution of natural resources and climate change, further compromising food security and nutrition. Children are disproportionately affected with 1 billion children at high risk of food insecurity. Low-income countries will be the most affected by these changes despite having contributed the least. Planet-friendly school meals, defined as programmes delivering equitable and healthy foods for children, produced in ways that do not pollute or overexploit natural resources and protect biodiversity, are a platform to tackle some of these food system challenges. School meals, mostly state-funded, reach 418 million children every day worldwide offering an opportunity to improve diet quality, and ultimately nutrition and health, and act as a catalyst for food systems transformation contributing to meeting global climate, food, and biodiversity goals.
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spelling CGSpace1627982025-12-08T09:54:28Z Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems Pastorino, Silvia Backlund, Ulrika Bellanca, Raffaella Hunter, Danny Kaljonen, Minna Singh, Samrat Vargas, Melissa Bundy, Donal food systems school feeding children health Food systems are facing a global crisis. Most countries are falling behind rather than progressing toward achieving the seven global nutrition targets set for 2030, while unsustainable food production and consumption patterns have contributed to depletion and pollution of natural resources and climate change, further compromising food security and nutrition. Children are disproportionately affected with 1 billion children at high risk of food insecurity. Low-income countries will be the most affected by these changes despite having contributed the least. Planet-friendly school meals, defined as programmes delivering equitable and healthy foods for children, produced in ways that do not pollute or overexploit natural resources and protect biodiversity, are a platform to tackle some of these food system challenges. School meals, mostly state-funded, reach 418 million children every day worldwide offering an opportunity to improve diet quality, and ultimately nutrition and health, and act as a catalyst for food systems transformation contributing to meeting global climate, food, and biodiversity goals. 2024-11-18 2024-11-27T11:25:46Z 2024-11-27T11:25:46Z Journal Item https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162798 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Pastorino, S.; Backlund, U.; Bellanca, R.; Hunter, D.; Kaljonen, M.; Singh, S.; Vargas, M.; Bundy, D. (2024) Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems. [Comment] Lancet Planetary Health, Online first paper (2024-11-18). 3 p. ISSN: 2542-5196
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Backlund, Ulrika
Bellanca, Raffaella
Hunter, Danny
Kaljonen, Minna
Singh, Samrat
Vargas, Melissa
Bundy, Donal
Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems
title Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems
title_full Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems
title_fullStr Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems
title_full_unstemmed Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems
title_short Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems
title_sort planet friendly school meals opportunities to improve children s health and leverage change in food systems
topic food systems
school feeding
children
health
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162798
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