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Supporting Cross-Sector Partnerships for Food Security and Sustainability: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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... Addressing interdisciplinary partnerships at all scales are necessary. the multifaceted challenges of feeding a world under A key question, she said, is how to incentivize the food pressure from severe food insecurity, malnutrition, and agricultural sectors to genuinely collaborate to create climate change, population growth, conflict, migration, "food-plus" results.3 and economic disruption will require transformative change to global food systems.
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... participants to work with USAID on any of these issues. On the other hand, Khan continued, achievements in Biofortification is one way to enhance the nutritional food and agriculture innovation beginning with the value of staple crops that comprise the majority of the Green Revolution of the 1960s have saved 1 billion lives, global diet, noted Lynn Brown (HarvestPlus)
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... Jones noted the backbone of what farmers grow and people eat, and that 95 percent of the 3.2 million food producers in the they are the most resilient when shocks hit the supply United States are white.6 chain." CAUSES has developed an applied research model HarvestPlus looks for partnerships of all sizes and at called Urban Food Systems to support a more diverse all stages of value chain: (1) agriculture research, (2)
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... a Sustainable Development Goals point of view, Ziska noted the number of undernourished people worldwide Regarding the farming population, Kablan said that is increasing; 50-70 million people are currently food farm labor is an issue in many other countries, noting insecure. Acute food insecurity is most significant in Bangladesh is experiencing labor shortages as more countries throughout the African continent.
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... Steiner explained that while the Green Revolution, Taylor noted that Grants4Ag has the potential to lead which Rockefeller was involved in as an early investor, to larger research projects or to incubation, depending successfully increased yields, "the global food system on the nature of the research. Bayer has also supported is failing -- it is not healthy, it is not sustainable, and incubator start-ups in areas where it has facilities.
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... Advances entities remarkably and uniquely represent the different in data science and mass spectrometry can offer new worlds of international health research and international opportunities to understand food in a robust and agriculture research. The Initiative has current Centers standardized way.
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... supports pioneering research in six challenge areas: soil As an intramural research agency, ARS has 690 projects health, sustainable water management, next-generation carried out by about 2,000 PhD scientists with a FY 2021 crops, advanced animal systems, urban food systems, $1.8 billion budget. About one-third of the laboratories and the health-agriculture nexus.
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... "Flagship Pioneering unprecedented collaboration with farmers, ranchers, and is positioned to translate breakthrough technologies to scientists to co-create climate-smart farming solutions. different industries in human and planetary health, and A capital campaign to raise $100 million is taking place to accelerate the transition to a sustainable agriculture with several private sector, nonprofit, and foundation system," Martinez said.
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... growing, processing, packaging, and distributing food that is ultimately wasted in the United States.15 In In a global context, Kenny said, "The United States addition to the impact on the environment, reducing food accounts for 10 percent of the world's food waste waste would conserve resources, help feed a growing although has 5 percent of the world's population." Per population, and meet the U.S. goal to halve food loss and person, by income bracket, the United States has by far waste by 2030, with a focus on retail and consumer waste the highest amount of consumer food waste, according within the cradle-to-consumer food supply chain.
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... Co-benefits of reducing food waste include climate and environmental impacts, nutrition, food safety, short- "The tradeoffs point to the fact that food waste strategies term and long-term food security, environmental justice, are complex and nuanced," Neff said. It is important to and jobs.
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... First, a with surplus to food banks, and it has delivered more small grant could scale a program like this to provide than 250 million servings while greatly reducing carbon families with fresh food while reducing carbon emissions emissions from wasted food. It was created and is run from otherwise wasted food.
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... SPONSORS This workshop was supported by the GovernmentPLANNING COMMITTEE ROGER BEACHY, Washington University-Industry Research Roundtable membership, National University in St. Louis; SALLY ROCKEY, Foundation for Food Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research, and the United and Agriculture Research; HAROLD SCHMITZ, University of States Department of Agriculture.


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