Towards sustainable food system transformation in the Global South International Potato Center [Video]

An unbalanced plate threatens not only human nutrition and related poor health outcomes, but also the planet. However,  what does it take to create a healthy plate—for the developing world—based on sustainable food systems? Agricultural and nutrition scientists from the CGIAR sought to answer this question during a side event held at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS46) in Rome, Italy. Delegates from 126 countries, key UN organizations and over 200 private sector and civil society representatives had gathered at CFS, 14 – 18 October, to review the 2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report (SOFI 2019) and the Voluntary Guidelines on Nutrition.

“It’s very clear that current food production and consumption practices are not very conducive to the type of sustainability that we require or desirable nutrition and health outcomes and that some actions are needed” said Namukolo Covic, Research Coordinator from the CGIAR …