Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security
We support the EU global commitment to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition through a dedicated, reinforced science-policy interface and a fostered inter-policy dialogue.
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Sustainable Food Systems
Transition to sustainable food systems is essential to end hunger, malnutrition and poverty while preserving the environment.
Many current food systems are currently unsustainable and fail to ensure global food security and nutrition.
To raise global awareness on the urgency of food system transformation, and foster commitments for concrete actions, the UN will convene a Food System Summit in 2021.
This topic displays a selection of key resources to support policymakers and practitioners in the transition towards sustainable food systems.
The High Level Panel of Experts on Food and Nutrition Security defines in its report on “Nutrition and food systems” that food systems gather “...all the elements (environment, people…
This section provides a selection of key publications on Sustainable Food Systems. It includes a Knowledge Review done by the EC-Join Research Centre in 2021, based on recent publications…
This section provides a selection of online resources related to the transition toward "Sustainable Food Systems”: examples of successful transitions, data related to food systems, evaluation tools…
Brief me on the Initiative - In the context of the European Commission’s political priorities including the European Green Deal and a zero tolerance approach on child labour, the Commission has…
This annual report monitors and evaluates agricultural policies in 54 countries, including the 38 OECD countries, the five non-OECD EU Member States, and 11 emerging...
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) QU Dongyu emphasized the role of young people as a key driver towards the transformation of agri-food systems...
Monitoring and tracking of the key drivers as well as the outcomes of food systems transformation is critical for the transformation to be sustainable and inclusive. Due to close linkages among sectors, the risk...
