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Building a More Sustainable, Resilient, Equitable, and Nourishing Food System: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Building a More Sustainable, Resilient, Equitable, and Nourishing Food System: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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As he described, the two main goals of the USDA Agriculture Innovation Agenda are to increase food production by 40 percent and reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture by 50 percent by 2050.2 Stover pointed out that food systems, the environment, people, and the economy are interconnected and interdependent, and they all require a systems thinking approach. 1 Presentations, videos, and other materials from the workshop can be found at https://www.nationalacademies.org/ event/07-22-2020/healthy-people-healthy-planet-building-a-more-sustainable-resilient-equitable-and-nourishing-food-system-aworkshop (accessed September 13, 2020)
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Advances in science and technology have allowed, and will increasingly be essential, for the food system to address issues such as nutrient deficiencies, chronic disease, environmental impact, economic sustainability, food supply diversity, food affordability and accessibility, and health care costs. Stover highlighted a series of National Academies workshops and consensus study reports that provide background and context for the current workshop.
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Rosenzweig explained ways that the food system is both successful and falls short in achieving food security and planetary health. She noted that expanding irrigation, fertilizer, and cropland; managing water, nutrients, and land; reducing food loss; and dietary changes to more evenly distribute calories around the world could allow the global food system to feed the world's population (Gerten et al., 2020)
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Rosenzweig noted that climate change could increase microbial contamination. In response to a question about research priorities, Daniels highlighted opportunities in environmentally sustainable animal food production through aquaculture and innovations in converting food waste to fish feed.
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Daley highlighted several programs to help farmers increase resiliency, move toward regenerative agriculture, and reduce GHG emissions. She also shared photos that illustrate regenerative farming practices.
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With respect to COVID-19, Naylor suggested that hunger resulting from the economic impact of the pandemic may kill more people globally than the disease itself, with more than 1 million people in the United States using food banks for the first time. She also noted that COVID-19 has disproportionately affected workers at meatpacking plants, as Salvador described, and people with diet-related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, both of whom are disproportionately people of color.
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consumer behavior change pathway, as consumer demand can lead to changes in other parts of the ecosystem. Prabhala noted that different pathways are appropriate for different countries and contexts, and there is a need to manage trade-offs in their implementation.
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With respect to the institutional investment pathway, Prabhala suggested that investors could do a better job of channeling institutional capital into natural capital, such as through the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program of the World Bank. With respect to consumer behavior change, Prabhala noted that there is a need for consumers to make sustainable changes, and businesses can better support them in doing so.
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Peters asked for input on the role of smallholder farmers in advocating for agroecology and in supporting and leveraging local and indigenous knowledge in food system transformation. Prabhala noted that there are different ways in which solutions can be scaled up, and different models will work in different settings.
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2017. Guiding principles for developing Dietary Reference Intakes based on chronic disease.
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Julian McClements, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Carrie McMahon, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Christian Peters, Tufts University; Sylvia Rowe, SR Strategy LLC; Kelsey Freeman Saelens, Cargill, Inc.; Ricardo Salvador, Union of Concerned Scientists; Patrick Stover, Texas A&M University; and Norbert Wilson, Tufts University.
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