The HLPE report would address the following issues from global to regional and local levels:
How and why do diets change?
Diet change is due to:
1. Increasing income level of the people in developing countries.
2. Increasing dependency on off farm job for their income including out migration.
3. Increasing use of readymade food teams.
4. Increased awareness of the people about healthy/nutritious diet.
What are the links between diets, consumption and consumer habits and food systems?
Which are:
1. Increasing consumption of diet of animal origin.
2. Awareness, increasing production of types/varieties of food commodities and their availability in the market.
How do changes in food systems affect changes of diets, and therefore health and nutritional outcomes?
1. Changes of food system have contributed for increasing consumption of protein rich diet of animal origin and the minerals and Vitamin rich fruits and vegetable, have contributed to health and nutritional outcomes
What are the determinants of the changes in consumption?
1. Level of income.
2. Awareness level of the population.
3. Availability and connectivity situation in that locality.
How do the dynamics of food systems drive consumption patterns?
1. Migrating population and their food system has contributed driving consumption pattern in particular location/settlement/countries.e.g Increasing Asian population in Europe and USA has promoted increasing consumption of Asian type food also by native population.
How to shape and to address pathways to healthy nutrition?
1. Awareness of healthy diet, increase availability, and discouraging use of harmful insecticides, pesticides, and hormone in food commodities production practice and also during their storage.
What is the role of public policy in promoting healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate food for all?
2. Food quality regulation right from production process up to the ultimate use.
How to build on the diversity of the existing food systems?
1. Support for increasing production and enhance availability of Livestock products, fruits and vegetables.
What is in practice the range of actionable solutions from farm to fork that enable better nutritional outcomes of food systems?
1. Enhance production of fruits, vegetable and livestock products in developing countries.
2. Awareness campaign for the production and consumption of nutritional rich food commodities.
3. Quality regulation in each stage of their value chain.
What action should different stakeholders, including governments, civil society and the private sector, take?
1. Government should increase awareness and regulate the quality.
2. Civil society should act as watchdog for both Government and Private sector actions.
3. Private sector should ensure quality production of the nutrition rich food commodities.
Purushottam P. MAINALI