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Achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 A Review of Quantitative Assessments of Synergies and Tradeoffs amongst the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A paper from the Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit 26 May 2021
Valin, Hugo; Hertel, Thomas; Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon; Hasegawa, Tomoko; Stehfest, Elke (2021-05-26)The Sustainable Development Goal 2 “Zero hunger” (SDG2) sets clear global targets for ensuring access to sufficient food and healthy nutrition for all by 2030, while keeping food systems within sustainable boundaries and ... -
Advance Equitable Livelihoods: A paper on Action Track 4
Neufeld, Lynnette M.; Huang, Jikun; Badiane, Ousmane; Caron, Patrick; Forsse, Lisa Sennerby (2021-03)Food systems transformation provides the opportunity to shift current trends in all forms of malnutrition, prioritizing nutritious food availability and affordability for all – from shifting priorities in agricultural ... -
Boost Nature Positive Production: A paper on Action Track 3
Hodson, Elizabeth; Niggli, Urs; Kitajima, Kaoru; Lal, Rattan; Sadoff, Claudia (2021-04-02)Transforming food systems involves five action tracks: i) access to safe and nutritious food, ii) sustainable consumption, iii) nature-positive production, iv) equitable livelihood, and v) resilience to shocks and stress. ... -
Building Resilience to Vulnerabilities, Shocks and Stresses: A paper on Action Track 5
Hertel, Thomas W.; Elouafi, Ismahane; Ewert, Frank; Tanticharoen, Morakot (2021-03-08)Transforming food systems involves five action tracks: i) access to safe and nutritious food, ii) sustain- able consumption, iii) nature-positive production, iv) equitable livelihood, and v) resilience to shocks and stress. ... -
Cost and Affordability of Preparing a Basic Meal around the World: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit May 2021
Masters, William A.; Martinez, Elena M.; Greb, Friederike; Herforth, Anna; Hendriks, Sheryl L. (2021-05)About 690 million people are chronically undernourished, roughly 2 billion experience food insecurity, and around 3 billion people cannot afford enough of the diverse foods needed for a healthy diet, even as all countries ... -
Ensuring Access to Safe and Nutritious Food for All Through Transformation of Food Systems: A paper on Action Track 1
Hendriks, Sheryl; Soussana, Jean-François; Martin, Cole; Kambugu, Andrew; Zilberman, David (2021-03-19)Action Track 1 of the Food Systems Summit offers an opportunity to bring together the crucial elements of food safety, nutrition, poverty and inequalities in the framework of food systems in the context of climate and ... -
Food Systems: Definition, Concept and Application for the UN Food Systems Summit
von Braun, Joachim; Afsana, Koaisar; Fresco, Louise O.; Hassan, Mohamed; Torero, Maximo (2021-03-05)The UN Food System Summit seeks to alter food systems to be healthier, safer, more sustainable, more efficient, and more equitable. This paper aims to inform the public and stakeholders interested in the Food Systems Summit ... -
The Future of Small Farms: Innovations for Inclusive Transformation: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit April 2021
Diao, Xinshen; Reardon, Thomas; Kennedy, Adam; DeFries, Ruth S.; Koo, Jawoo; Minten, Bart; Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Thornton, Philip (2021-04)By 2050, the United Nations projects that 68 percent of the world population will live in cities (UN DESA 2019). However, with continuous population growth, the number of people living in rural areas of many low- and ... -
Healthy Diet: A definition for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021
Hendriks, Sheryle; Hugas, Marta; Neufled, Lynnette M. (2021-03-01)The aim of this document is to propose a definition of healthy diets and related evidence, thus permitting the alignment of terminology for the Food Systems Summit. Diets are combinations of food consumed by individuals ... -
Livestock and sustainable food systems: status, trends, and priority actions: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit July 2021
Herrero, Mario; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Thornton, Philip K.; Fanzo, Jessica; Rushton, Jonathan; Godde, Cecile; Bellows, Alexandra; de Groot, Adrian; Palmer, Jeda; Chang, Jinfeng; van Zanten, Hannah; Wieland, Barbara; DeClerck, Fabrice; Nordhagen, Stella; Gill, Margaret (2021-07-06)Livestock are a critically important component of the food system, however, the sector needs a profound transformation to ensure that it contributes to a rapid transition towards sustainable food systems. This paper reviews ... -
Secondary Cities as Catalysts for Nutritious Diets in Low- And Middle-Income Countries: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit April 2021
van Zutphen, Kesso Gabrielle; Barjolle, Dominique; van den Berg, Sophie; Gavin-Smith, Breda; Kraemer, Klaus; Musard, Capucine; Prytherch, Helen; Six, Johan; Winter, Simon; Woltering, Kris (2021-04)The world is facing a global malnutrition crisis. One in nine people go to bed hungry, more than 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies whilst one third of the global population is overweight or obese [1]. ... -
Shift to Healthy and Sustainable Consumption Patterns: A paper on Action Track 2
Herrero, Mario; Hugas, Marta; Lele, Uma; Wira, Aman; Torero, Maximo (2021-04-07)Action Track 2 works to catalyse a shift in consumer behaviour that will create and build demand for sustainably produced agriand ocean food products, strengthen shorter value chains, promote circular use of food resources, ... -
There is No Single Challenge, Nor Single Solution, for Food Systems Transformations: Making plurality visible: A Food System Summit Brief prepared by Science Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit
Rivera-Ferre, Marta G.; Mottet, Anne; Pereira, Laura; Penker, Marianne; Candel, Jeroen; Davies, Anne; Jackson, Peter; Heinonen, Marina; McAllister, Tim; Termeer, Katrien; Hristov, Alexander Nikolov (2021-08)There is a growing call (and agreement) to transform food systems towards sustainable, just and healthy systems, understanding that transformation is about fundamental, system- wide changes, beyond piecemeal interventions ... -
A Whole Earth Approach to Nature Positive Food: Biodiversity and Agriculture
DeClerck, Fabrice A. J.; Koziell, Izabella; Benton, Tim; Garibaldi, Lucas A.; Kremen, Claire; Maron, Martine; Rumbaitis Del Rio, Cristina; Sidhu, Aman; Wirths, Jonathan; Clark, Michael; Dickens, Chris; Estrada Carmona, Natalia; Fremier, Alexander K.; Jones, Sarah K.; Khoury, Colin K.; Lal, Rattan; Obersteiner, Michael; Remans, Roseline; Rusch, Adrien; Schulte, Lisa A.; Simmonds, Jeremy; Stringer, Lindsay C.; Weber, Christopher; Winowiecki, Leigh (2021-07)Agriculture is the largest single source of environmental degradation, responsible for over 30% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, 70% of freshwater use and 80% of land conversion: it is the single largest driver ...