Enabled or disabled: is the environment right for using biodiversity to improve nutrition?
How can we ensure that 9 billion people will have access to a nutritious and healthy diet that is produced in a sustainable manner by 2050? Despite major advances, our global food system still fails to feed a significant part of humanity adequately. Diversifying food systems and diets to include nut...
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| author | Hunter, D. Özkan, I. Moura de Oliveira Beltrame, Daniela Samarasinghe, W.L.G. Wasike, Victor W. Charrondière, U.R. Borelli, Teresa Sokolow, J. |
| author_browse | Borelli, Teresa Charrondière, U.R. Hunter, D. Moura de Oliveira Beltrame, Daniela Samarasinghe, W.L.G. Sokolow, J. Wasike, Victor W. Özkan, I. |
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| description | How can we ensure that 9 billion people will have access to a nutritious and healthy diet that is produced in a sustainable manner by 2050? Despite major advances, our global food system still fails to feed a significant part of humanity adequately. Diversifying food systems and diets to include nutrient-rich species can help reduce malnutrition, while contributing other multiple benefits including healthy ecosystems. While research continues to demonstrate the value of incorporating biodiversity into food systems and diets, perverse subsidies, and barriers often prevent this. Countries like Brazil have shown that, by strategic actions and interventions, it is indeed possible to create better contexts to mainstream biodiversity for improved nutrition into government programs and public policies. Despite some progress, there are few global and national policy mechanisms or processes that effectively join biodiversity with agriculture and nutrition efforts. This perspective paper discusses the benefits of biodiversity for nutrition and explores what an enabling environment for biodiversity to improve nutrition might look like, including examples of steps and actions from a multi-country project that other countries might replicate. Finally, we suggest what it might take to create enabling environments to mainstream biodiversity into global initiatives and national programs and policies on food and nutrition security. With demand for new thinking about how we improve agriculture for nutrition and growing international recognition of the role biodiversity, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presents an opportunity to move beyond business-as-usual to more holistic approaches to food and nutrition security. |
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| spelling | CGSpace757762025-12-08T09:54:28Z Enabled or disabled: is the environment right for using biodiversity to improve nutrition? Hunter, D. Özkan, I. Moura de Oliveira Beltrame, Daniela Samarasinghe, W.L.G. Wasike, Victor W. Charrondière, U.R. Borelli, Teresa Sokolow, J. nutrition diet sustainability environment biodiversity food security How can we ensure that 9 billion people will have access to a nutritious and healthy diet that is produced in a sustainable manner by 2050? Despite major advances, our global food system still fails to feed a significant part of humanity adequately. Diversifying food systems and diets to include nutrient-rich species can help reduce malnutrition, while contributing other multiple benefits including healthy ecosystems. While research continues to demonstrate the value of incorporating biodiversity into food systems and diets, perverse subsidies, and barriers often prevent this. Countries like Brazil have shown that, by strategic actions and interventions, it is indeed possible to create better contexts to mainstream biodiversity for improved nutrition into government programs and public policies. Despite some progress, there are few global and national policy mechanisms or processes that effectively join biodiversity with agriculture and nutrition efforts. This perspective paper discusses the benefits of biodiversity for nutrition and explores what an enabling environment for biodiversity to improve nutrition might look like, including examples of steps and actions from a multi-country project that other countries might replicate. Finally, we suggest what it might take to create enabling environments to mainstream biodiversity into global initiatives and national programs and policies on food and nutrition security. With demand for new thinking about how we improve agriculture for nutrition and growing international recognition of the role biodiversity, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presents an opportunity to move beyond business-as-usual to more holistic approaches to food and nutrition security. 2016 2016-06-22T09:52:22Z 2016-06-22T09:52:22Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75776 en Open Access application/pdf Frontiers Media Hunter, D.; Özkan, I.; Moura de Oliveira Beltrame, D.; Samarasinghe, W.L.G.; Wasike, V.W.; Charrondière, U.R.; Borelli, T.; Sokolow, J. (2016) Enabled or disabled: is the environment right for using biodiversity to improve nutrition? Frontiers in Nutrition 3(14) 6 p. ISSN: 2296-861X |
| spellingShingle | nutrition diet sustainability environment biodiversity food security Hunter, D. Özkan, I. Moura de Oliveira Beltrame, Daniela Samarasinghe, W.L.G. Wasike, Victor W. Charrondière, U.R. Borelli, Teresa Sokolow, J. Enabled or disabled: is the environment right for using biodiversity to improve nutrition? |
| title | Enabled or disabled: is the environment right for using biodiversity to improve nutrition? |
| title_full | Enabled or disabled: is the environment right for using biodiversity to improve nutrition? |
| title_fullStr | Enabled or disabled: is the environment right for using biodiversity to improve nutrition? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enabled or disabled: is the environment right for using biodiversity to improve nutrition? |
| title_short | Enabled or disabled: is the environment right for using biodiversity to improve nutrition? |
| title_sort | enabled or disabled is the environment right for using biodiversity to improve nutrition |
| topic | nutrition diet sustainability environment biodiversity food security |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75776 |
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