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Related Themes to "Sustainable Food Systems"

Building on the momentum of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, which highlighted the urgent need for transformative change in the way we produce, process, and consume food, strategies such as reimagining agri-food value chains, promoting deforestation-free products, harnessing the potential of blue food, addressing mycotoxin risks, advancing gender equality, and adopting agroecology can help drive the transformation of the food system towards a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient future.

United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021

Agri-food value chains

Agri-food value chains play a crucial role in shaping sustainable food systems. By linking farmers, processors, distributors, and consumers, they ensure that food is produced, handled…

Deforestation free value chains

The expansion of agricultural areas drives up to 90% of deforestation worldwide. This poses an imminent threat to our planet’s biodiversity, climate, and the well-being of communities worldwide. In the context of the European Commission’s…

Gender Equality and Food systems

Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is vital to building fair, inclusive, prosperous and peaceful societies. With food systems at the core of every society it is a necessity...

Agroecology

Agroecology can enhance ecological and socio-economic resilience of agricultural and food systems.