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Changing diets and transforming food systems

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Title Changing diets and transforming food systems
 
Creator Vermeulen, Sonja J.
Park, Toby
Khoury, Colin K.
Mockshell, Jonathan
Béné, Christophe
Thi, Huong Trinh
Heard, Brent
Wilson, Bee
 
Subject agriculture
food security
climate change
diet
sustainable development goals
food systems
 
Description In an aspirational global food system, everyone would meet but not exceed their nutritional needs, and fulfill personal preferences for tasty, affordable, varied, convenient and healthy food—while keeping climate change under 2°C. Diets are an outcome of people’s choices and are profoundly shaped by socio-cultural, physical and economic factors in the food ‘choice environment’. Historically there have been substantial changes in people’s diets and diets continue to be in flux. Dietary change offers a route to achieving the aspirational Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) food system, combining positive outcomes for health and for the
environment. The most effective strategies to shift diets will involve multiple approaches that deliberately aim not just to influence consumers themselves, but all participants in the food system, taking into account plural values and incentives. Effectiveness of actions will depend on the political economy at national and global levels. Overall there is reason to be hopeful about the potential for dietary change, given both historic trends and the growing suite of tools and approaches available.
 
Date 2019-10-07
2019-10-07T14:14:45Z
2019-10-07T14:14:45Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Vermeulen S, Park T, Khoury CK, Mockshell J, Béné C, Thi HT, Heard B, Wilson B. 2019. Changing diets and transforming food systems. CCAFS Working Paper No. 282. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103987
 
Language en
 
Relation CCAFS Working Paper
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf