1.
FOOD SYSTEM TRANSFORMATIONS:
NATIONAL ACTIONS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD
Overview
IFPRI Lunch seminar, 14 November 2019
Inge D. Brouwer, A4NH-FSHD, Wageningen University

2.
Food systems transform
rapidly from agrarian to
modern shaped by global
and regional changes
Challenged to deliver
nutritious foods equitably
within planetary
boundaries
Country-specific
approaches needed

3.
National Food System
Transformation
Priority Issues
• Dietary Transition (balancing healthy and unhealthy)
requires urgent attention
• Sustainability: water/land; climate adaptation (crisis)
• Collaboration and Coordination:
• Public, private, civil society, academia
• Multiple agents, institutions, size, and scale
• Appropriate Enabling / Anchoring:
• Realistic in national / regional context
• Equitable and balanced
• Evolving roles – public regulation and private
responsibility and management

4.
Simplified HLPE Framework for Food Systems

5.
Rural Food System
1
Diets low in diversity, cereal-
based, low footprint, low
costs, relatively safe,
relatively cheap
Mixed Food System
2
Urban Food System
3
Future Food System
4
Dietary risk factors decline;
diet quality improves;
footprint reduced; costs
reduced, safe
Diets increase in sodium,
processed meat, SSB, trans
fat; dietary diversity is
increasing ; costs increasing;
footprint low, unsafe
Diets high in sodium,
processed meat, SSB, trans
fat; diets low in legumes,
F&V, nuts, seeds, footprint
increases, increasingly safe
but expensive
Obesity outweighs
undernutrition; burden of
dietary risks highest
Undernutrition and
deficiencies reduce,
obesity increases
High undernutrition and
deficiencies
Undernutrition almost
non-existent, obesity
starts to reduce
Dietary transition, various dietary risk factors
Burdens of malnutrition, foot prints
Food system transition towards healthier and more sustainable diets
(based on Downs, Ahmed & Herforth, forthcoming)

6.
Measuring Progress in Food Systems for Healthier Diets

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