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Food System Governance

Men loading harvested bok choy in truck

SUMMARY

Transforming food systems to ensure that they are inclusive, health-enhancing and environmentally sustainable requires new modes of governance. Conventional governance arrangements have proven inadequate to solve highly interconnected food system problems as they tend to produce fragmented policy solutions and/or exclude stakeholders with little lobbying power. This brief presents different approaches that highlight how governments can coordinate policy sectors and engage food systems actors more effectively.

The Hidden Costs of Food

accumulated since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016

The counter shows the accumulated hidden costs of our current food systems since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016, taking into account greenhouse gas emissions, blue water use, land use conversion, nitrogen emissions, undernourishment, poverty, and unhealthy diets.

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