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  • Publication | 2023

Food Systems and Diets: A Handbook of Essential Policies

Global Food and Nutrition Security

This handbook of essential policies is an accumulation of the Global Panel’s policy briefs to date and aims to provide a body of knowledge on how food systems can be transformed so they are more sustainable and provide the foods that promote healthier diets, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

Each brief includes evidences, key facts, policy recommendations and examples:

  • Consider the use of biofortified crops

  • Create climate-smart food systems

  • Improve data and metrics

  • Provide healthier school meals

  • Manage food price volatility

  • Implement food safety regulations

  • The economic advantages of healthy diets

  • Enhance consumer demand

  • Reduce food loss and waste

  • Enhancing food environments

  • Engage the private sector

  • Putting diets at the heart of the SDGs

  • How can urbanisation influence the food system and diets?

  • Aquaculture

  • Fragile Contexts

  • COVID-19

  • Trade

  • Optimising the benefits from subsidies