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Interventions required in food system for better health outcome


Abstract

Food and agriculture are playing key roles for many of the global challenges such as poverty, under-nutrition, obesity, climate change, and biodiversity loss which impacts the health of the population of the country thus also impacts the economy of both developed and developing countries differently. Many changes are already implemented from food production to consumptions from various sectors but the efforts are still not enough and in infancy. The food system is a complicated network of tasks involving various steps from production, to consumption. The food system includes other factors of sociological factors like governance, the economics of food production, culture, health, sustainability, and its effect on the natural environment. This research paper will propose the primary changes required in the food system, policies, and dietary perspective to construct an integrated methodology of intervention, after evaluating web of interconnected different indicator variable and analyzing the previous methods of intervention responsible for food sustainability directly and indirect, at two different levels local and global. I will address the root cause of a problem in food system which impacts the health which includes various sectors such as socially, economically and politically channel at various levels in the food system to help the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Apart from this, the study also evaluates the economical burden from health issues resulting from the failing food system in developed and developing countries. 

Keywords

food system, production, culture, health, sustainability

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