It is a great opportunity for me to be invited to make my humble contribution to this global topic of nutrition and food system and the link to diet, health and food security.
Food system is an age long proceedure and strategies of developing infrastructure and technology of bringing food to the table of various communitities from the inception of human creation.
The scripture attested to the role of man in tendering the garden of Aden as the first habitat of man in creation.Since then diverse food system has come into exixtence both for plant food and the animal food all for making food of plant and animal origin available for the human race
Food system of plant and animal food varied socioculturally from one region of the globe to another and it is largely defined by culture inheritance dietary preference and the climate
By and large various food systems had improved from the traditional primitive and small scale holdings, to sophisticated systems due to improved technology which commands expansion in acrage and population for crops and livestock respectively
The improvement in themselves are the off shoot of consumers demand, appreciation of health benefit and globaldecline in availability of food. Diet is of multiracial diversity which can stimulate demand and improvement in a given food system when the community make a higher demands and recognise the benefit of including such food from the system in their menu
When food system changes either by the loss of the native tranfered technology, or through skillfuf integration of recent innovation, the demand for food produced by such system may be lost to the community or be exanded in output.
I would like to bring some local examples from African communities, where native food produced by some ancient food system are no longer found in many communities of Africa today or in most cases are extinct.
Cetain food recipes of good health benefit that arose from their system of planting, harvesting, and processing that are generational health recipee are in extintion in many countries, for example the food system and food recipe from Balsam plant, moringa. varieties venonia amygelina Ewuro IN YORUBA RACE OF nIGERIA0 qUAIL AND QUAIL EGG PRODUCTION ARE FAST LOOSING RECOGNITION BY THE LARGER PROPOTION OF THE nIGERIA COMMUNITY, IT IS OBVIOUS THEREFORE THAT THE DYNAMIC OF OF FOOD SYSTEM GLOBALLY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS, AND WIDER ACCEPTABILITY ACROSS THE GLOBE, SO WE NEED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS DYNAMICS TOSHAPE GLOBAL PATH WAY TO HEALTH AND NUTRITION BY ENCOURAGING FOOD RECIPE IMPORTS AND EXPORT GLOBALLY EVEN IF THE SYSTEM IS ALIEN TO OTHER REGIONS OF THE WORLD, BUT GOVERNMENT MUST PUT ON GROUND STANDARD, SAFETY REGULATIONS AND HACCP if food system and diet peculiar to a regiom must be widely consumed.
This is why Government must must back up regulatory bodies with laws and specified penalties for contravention.
The world population will record an increase of 3 billion by the year 2050 barely 34 years to this time and the effect of climate change coming as flood draught and emerging insurgences globally make the discussion on this topic a preventive strategy to improve world food security
Thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this topic.
Dr Stephen Adejoro is an international Independent Animal food security consultant and a co founder of the Livestock Industry Foundation for Africa
Stephen Adejoro