全球粮食安全与营养论坛 (FSN论坛)

·         How and why do diets change?

One is associated with the food production through farming systems practices in agriculture and the other is non-agriculture system – animal meet and sea food. Under traditional agriculture farmers used to produce nutrient rich food including milk. With the chemical input agriculture technology this is drastically modified and now people get poor quality polluted diet including adulterated food. Even the sea/river/pond foods are contaminated with pollution.  

Cereals and pulses were important food components under traditional system. Now vegetables are consumed more but they are contaminated with polluted water use in producing them.

·         What are the links between diets, consumption and consumer habits and food systems?

With urban culture, there is lot change in diet when compared to rural diet.

·         How do changes in food systems affect changes of diets, and therefore health and nutritional outcomes?

When people consume polluted or adulterated foods nutritional quality is affected and thus health is severely affected. Several new diseases were introduced with such food.

·         What are the determinants of the changes in consumption?

Urban to rural; country to country; based on local food availability; impact of western food habits in to developed countries; journey foods; hotel foods, etc

·         How do the dynamics of food systems drive consumption patterns?

·         How to shape and to address pathways to healthy nutrition?

There is only one way changing the agriculture system from chemical inputs technology to organic input technology; controlling of water pollution; controlling of adulterated foods;

·         What is the role of public policy in promoting healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate food for all?

Public policy under corrupt governance and MNC controlling such governance we rarely achieve healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate food. Food for all is produced but we are wasting such food 30 to 50% of what is produced due to poor governance.

·         How to build on the diversity of the existing food systems?

With good governance

·         What is in practice the range of actionable solutions from farm to fork that enable better nutritional outcomes of food systems?

Organic forming

·         What action should different stakeholders, including governments, civil society and the private sector, take?

At present the system is in the hands of MNCs and governments are run by the MNCs and even noble prize winners are canvassing for MNCs cause.

 Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy