Please find attached my comments.
The Declaration should make strong reference to food and nutrition’s role in environmental degradation and protection. Food has a major impact on the environment. WHO and FAO ought to include that dimension in the Rome Declaration. It should and could reaffirm past UN commitments that health and environment are intimately connected through food and diet. There is a strong tradition in the UN of cross-referencing to wider UN commitments. Rio+20 for example acknowledged the environment.
[See specific comments in the attachment, Ed.]
Tim Lang PhD
Professor of Food Policy
Centre for Food Policy
School of Social Sciences
City University London
Prof. Tim Lang