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  • Publication | 2021
Food Systems and the Triple Challenge
Global Food and Nutrition Security
  • The term food systems refers to all the elements and activities related to producing and consuming food, as well as their effects, including economic, health, and environmental outcomes. 
  • Globally, food systems need to meet the triple challenge of ensuring food security and nutrition for a growing population, providing livelihoods for farmers and others in the food chain, and improving the environmental sustainability of the sector. 
  • Food systems have made remarkable achievements across all three dimensions, but they also face important challenges. 
  • Better policies can help address the triple challenge. However, designing effective and coherent policies for food systems requires policymakers to navigate complex synergies and trade-offs between the different dimensions of the triple challenge.