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There were differences between voices that are urging waiting before acting on early research and results around the soil and human health nexus. There was some discussion that many of those voices are the ones that are benefitting from the current status quo of prioritizing quantity at the expense of quality of foods. There was disagreement over how valuable carbon markets will be for the growth of appropriate practices and policies in regenerative agriculture. Carbon markets can be seen as a reductionist method to put all impacts into one measurement when there is a risk of little long term ... قراءة المزيدbenefits and carbon accounting does not include enough of the measurements of the additional benefits, e.g. around water. That is why there needs to be a greater linkage of carbon to other impact areas, such as nutrition. قراءة القليل

The second session was around Making the Case for Integrating Soil Health and Human Health. The session consisted of presentations from Brightseed, North Start Transition, and Axten Farms. Brightseed shared their work connecting soil and human health. Plant rich diets lead to health as diets deficient in plants are 3x more deadly when measuring global deaths attributed to diet. This is why many small molecule drugs (63%) come from natural sources. Plants have proteins, starches, lipids, and other compounds. Only 100,000 compounds are known in the academic space, but there are millions or ten o... قراءة المزيدf millions in existence so Brightseed works to map compounds. They have started with 700,000 identified through artificial intelligence systems that index commercial placts, create a database of plant compounds, and connect to a digital model of human health. Their process found a plant compound in black pepper that can improve metabolic health, with impending clinical trials around the research. Metabolic health is the top reason after age for COVID complications, which includes fatty livers and little to no treatment options. North Star Transition shared the investment case for deploying capital in this space. There is a movement for integrated corporate reporting with sustainability but there is still a gap for corporations to acknowledge the soil health connection to human health. The reason there is no change at the systemic level is because the issues are treated in siloes. For example, the health service in the UK really only works with food when discussing obesity and also lacks information and focus around the nexus of soil and human health.They have been working on regional change within the country of Wales in order to explore what systemic scale can look like across a region of 3 million people. They brought together 35 organizations across sectors in order to break down the silos of conversations. They have crafted four ambitions for Wales: i) land use that leads to revitalized connections between the land, air and water that optimizes positive impact for nature, community and carbon; ii) the Welshe food system is optimised for the wellbeing of citizens, community and nature; ii) the hidden voices of nature and future generations are present for all decisions in government and business; and iv) integrating community and nature in the delivery of scaled-up prevention to improve wellbeing outcomes. Axten Farms shared their work managing a family farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. They have farmed in a water limited area for over a hundred years. They faced a series of weather events that made them vulnerable and saw that perennial crops had greater resiliency. So they began adopting practices to build resiliency, such as cover crops, reduced synthetic inputs, stripper headers and stubble retention, diverse cash crops with companions, compost and carbon based inputs, compost extract and biostimulants, and synergistic crops. The idea of how big of a difference soil management practices could make really stuck with the farm as they learned about the practices of others, such as Gabe Brown. They built a seed cleaning facility that cleans all grain grown on the farm to food grade and the seed market, as well as regeneratively grown flour, that they directly market and control the end to end process. An important part of this work has been around community and socioeconomics as they have seen the loss of fellow farmers so they aimed to build a process that could employ and retain more people in rural communities. They have also conducted grain nutrient testing to highlight the major difference their practices have made on nutritional quality, and that has also translated to more flavorful products. قراءة القليل

The third session was Bringing Back Nutritional Wisdom. The panel consisted of American Heart Association, Health Research Institute Labs, Link Market, and BeingBrigid Nutrition. Ideas covered included: 1. Increased focuses and research on nutrition from the NIH to US government agencies to the Periodic Table of Foods Initiative to catalog nutrients and their connection to growing practices. The importance of public policy bodies to learn more from existing work and build this into altered or new policies. 2. How much is left to learn about food and nutritional dark matter, and the role dietit... قراءة المزيدians are playing to spread more knowledge about this place and build the connection to responsible agricultural practices. Conventional medicine focuses more on a diagnosis as opposed to thriving, having the right nutrients, reducing inflammation, maximizing metabolic health, and failing individuals. Historic and traditional medical practices made the connection between food and nutritional quality with health, but there has been a lack of science for this that has steered conventional medicine away from nutritional wisdom. Medical schools teach as little as a single session around nutrition that future doctors can bring into their future practices. The health care community needs to catch up through community shared knowledge, nutrition education for the medical community, strategic partnerships between nutrition and medical entities, partnerships between responsible food service and medical institutions. 3. Link Market’s free grocery delivery services to seniors and a publicly funded brick and mortar grocery story in public housing in St. Louis. They only sell food that meets guidelines laid out by the American Heart Association. They have worked deeply on finding the balance between sourcing affordable food and that food coming from responsible sources that have grown food in more nutritious ways. They have also been part of Food Rx work for medical professionals to recommend healthier food through prescriptions that can be filled by grocery store kiosks on site. 4. Difficulties around food access and nutrition from food swamps, people being failed by profit and drug and surgery centered medical systems, marketing of the cheapest and most affordable foods that destroy physical and mental health, lack of nutrition education available to people (e.g. understanding the difference between feeling full and having nutritious foods), the lack of affordability for healthier and responsibly grown food. 5. How to educate more people around nutritional wisdom. This could be specific to individual health and dietary needs, people learning more about their bodies and being their own health advocates, guiding them through the change of mindset and confidence in what they are doing, increasing comfort around cooking healthier foods, bring in people that are good communicators. This also includes educating farmers to understand that they have the ability to do something better and deliver high quality nutrition, or other supply chain actors to recognize this and fund farmers for that work. قراءة القليل

The way we do agriculture, the way we manage our soils, the way we process our food, and the way we get our food from farm to table all influence the levels of nutrients we find in our food. Conversely, there are also many things that influence our body’s ability to use what nutrients are available. Better understanding this complex relationship between agriculture, food, and health is of increasing importance as we face both environmental and health crises ranging from climate change to chronic illness and exorbitant costs due to a primarily reactive healthcare system. Regenerative food sys... قراءة المزيدtems – ones that value nutrient density from soil to stomach – are seen as a solution to these challenges and present enormous opportunities for further learning, development, and investment. RFSI’s Rooted in Health event dove in to the under-explored connection between regenerative agriculture and nutrition, the pathways to improving human health through agriculture that already exist, the work yet to be done, and the investment levers that can be pulled to advance human health and nutrition. Addressing an issue as complex as this requires a systems-based, multi-stakeholder approach. This event is for investors and practitioners across the agriculture, food, and health spectrum and is designed to provide: 1. A foundation of understanding of the connections and complexities that exist between agriculture, food, and health; 2. A roadmap for work to be done by various stakeholders involved; 3. An exploration of the investment and funding opportunities that exist along the path from soil to stomach; 4. A vision for what comes next and how you fit in. The event frequently highlighted the importance of working on these two areas in tandem with each other as they are complementary and tackled this topic as something that covers across all five Action Tracks. This includes building the connection between food and health, supporting sustainable farming practices that promote carbon, water and other ecosystem services, supporting rural economies and nutrition access, and creating climate smart agricultural systems. Building the connection between soil and human health is a two way street in ensuring that nutrient dense food makes its way from the field to the person, but also that consumers are primed to accept and assimilate nutrients from regeneratively grown food. It will also require breaking down siloes between different industries and sectors to ensure that people are recognizing the holistic and interconnected dynamics of agricultural practices and nutrition. قراءة القليل

Main findings included: 1. The directionality of food system towards quantity instead of quality has been deleterious to human and environmental health. The way it is possible to breed for a cardboard tomato shows the potential to breed for more nutritional and regenerative food products. 2. Growing more nutritious foods influences human health and shows the connection between how we manage landscapes and how manage epidemiological health. There is an opportunity to not only improve health outcomes and food equity, but also store carbon and support other ecological services through regenerativ... قراءة المزيدe growing practices that produce more nutritious foods. 3. Soil ecologies and agriculture systems if continually perturbed can go from a stable to an unstable state and the same happens with the human gut leading to immunity and inflammatory issues. 4. There are some relatively easy principles and a framing of nourishment, healing, or nutrition wisdom that can interrogate the complexity of these individual issues and allow people to understand the connection between soil health and human health. 5. Breaking down the siloes between food, agriculture, health, insurance, policy, finance and other sectors are key to having a systemic approach that acknowledges the connection between responsible growing practices, increased nutritional quality, better tasting food, and more accessible better foods. 6. There is a great deal of interest to continue to figure out the dark matter of nutrition to understand all of the unknown compounds within foods, the variation of nutritional quality in different foods and their connection to different growing practices, and how to better educate not only consumers but also policy makers and the medical community around the importance of nutritious food that come from responsible growing practices. 7. Food is a human right, not only enough quantities of food, but also nutritious food that nourishes the body and regenerates soil systems. 8. The growth of the idea of food as medicine and the immediate opportunity to expand this on a societal level lies with businesses and innovation to make changes as the medical community and public policy moves more slowly. قراءة القليل

The first session was Digging into Agriculture's Ties to Human Health Outcomes, highlighting the expertise of the Bionutrient Food Association, the Croatan Institute, and Basil's Harvest. The session mainly covered the findings of an upcoming report from the Bionutrient Food Association and the Croatan Institute around the nexus of soil and human health. Human bodies and agricultural ecologies mirror each other. The session highlighted the four levels of nutritional interventions that exist in the space: 1. Replacement, including healthier options and whole foods; 2. Free from chemical and dru... قراءة المزيدg inputs; 3. Differentiated nutrient density, including how we begin to select food that has nutrient levels that are differentiated and detailed; 4. Microbiome centric, meaning a more harmonious relationship between microbes in the environment and microbes in our bodies. Moving forward this work will require a focus on: 1. Prioritizing more nutritious food; 2. Harvest and processing to ensure that harvest and transport time is optimized to maximize nutrition, and midstream practices are changed to stop separating whole foods from their core nutritional components (e.g. as happens with wheat); 3. Purchase, access and preparation as systemic racism and inequities have created a major lack of food access, high cost around regeneratively grown food, and increasing difficulty around having the time, energy and resources to properly prepare food to make the nutrients most available; 4. Digestion and absorption, meaning ensuring that human guts and bodies are in healthy places (free from chemicals, stress and chronic illnesses) in order to best absorb nutrients. 5. General human health to ensure access to more nutrients, reduce chronic health issues, and improve the health of the gut microbiome. Dialogues throughout the session briefly mentioned some other key ideas: 1. The idea of nutritional dark matter and the lack of information/science that we have around nutrition. 2. Compost application can greatly improve the health of soil systems as mirrored with human gut microbiomes that can have improved health with increasing research around fecal transplants. 3. Society needs a new vocabulary around this nexus as regenerative agriculture, nutrient density and other individual terms do not cover the suite of how interdependent these relationships and work are. 4. There is a need for a stable and profitable market to pay farmers and investors that are valuing these contributions. قراءة القليل

Equitable livelihood (i.e., women empowerment) -WET markets can advance equitable livelihood and this underrated benefit should be discussed more and considered as a goal in future projects.

• A need to create a coalition for market owner and researchers in related fields. -It is of great significance for non-profit organizations to unite researchers and stakeholders to work collaboratively to address challenges and manage wet market for public good.

• Incentive programs that provide founding opportunities and help vendors start online business needs further discussion. • Sustainable farming and ways to shorten supply chain of fresh produce in China need further exploration.

• Participation of capitalism in leading the market transformation -Should the government lead the project for public good? -Will the competitive bidding process bring a positive impact as expected?

• Identify the value and challenges for wet markets in China • Analyze problems of current interventions • Explore the trend of development of markets • Propose effective strategies to revitalize wet markets in China

• Adaptation on market management and a shift on consumption behavior (through education) among young people are equally vital. • Inspiring ideas along with worldwide best practices should be collected in guidebook and introduced to practitioners in China.

• Adaptation o Market management: the value of a WET market should be widely recognized by vendors, local government officers, consumers and market management team. One innovative idea is to utilize night market as places where the youth can learn how to cook, where to find food that tastes good, and where to incubate future livelihoods. This considers time constraints and busy schedules of young people living in urban areas in China. o Consumption behavior: It is emphasized that consumption habit can be guided and adapted to a more sustainable way. One solution proposed is to involve chefs ... قراءة المزيدin the transformation. Chefs, especially celebrity chefs, can help promote a plant-based diet while guiding young consumers to re-appreciate food from production to consumption end. قراءة القليل

• Recognize uniqueness of challenges faced by each market o Gentrification follows as economic develops at a rapidat rapid rate in cities in China. City planners should be aware that food can promote gentrification in certain way. Thus, food price and access to healthy food should be ensured in every community, especially in those vulnerable groups (eg. low-income groups).

• Local government (i.e., Beilun District, Ningbo City, China) will find guidebook launched in the dialogue a helpful tool to help advance WET market transformation. o Through dialogue, together with EAT Foundation, the policy boot camp developed by Dr Nazia Mintz Habib would like to provide research tools for Beilun Bureau of Health on policy systems reform. The boot camp is expected to propose transformation plans fit for Beilun wet markets.

Communication with real estate developers -Increased transparency of communication can facilitate WET market transformation.

The practice of "mercy release" by Buddhists has a more obvious faith based background, and the key audience may be limited to faith groups and individuals. When communicating with the public, it is easy to form a stereotype of "veganism in connection to faith". Faith based communities are vegetarians. It is possible, however, to achieve more cooperative and innovative ideas in terms of advocacy.

The focus of this particular UNFSS "China Dialogue" is to explore how plant based diet can contribute to the transformation of the food system. The transition to a plant based diet has a direct and far-reaching impact on the transformation of the current food system, as well as public health (chronic diseases, zoonotic diseases), planetary health (carbon neutrality, biodiversity), animal welfare, food security, and rural revitalization. Whether it can be timely and effective depends largely on how the vegan community utilizes systematic thinking, integrates issues of humanity, international po... قراءة المزيدlicies, and modern scientific research methods to promote plant based diet and lifestyle creatively. قراءة القليل

1. Traditional Chinese religions and their principle beliefs (i.e. vegetarianism of Chinese Buddhism and its principles of compassion), have a positive impact on food transformation. Our keynote speakers discussed plant based diet from a Taoist longevity perspective, and others advocated for plant based diet as a new way of practicing mercy release (the practice of purchasing live animals sold for food for the purpose of freeing them in nature). The combination of traditional wisdoms and the daily practices of the new generation can and do provide solutions for various challenges. 2. Engagemen... قراءة المزيدt of government agencies and corporations play a crucial part in the transformation of the food systems. Key decision makers can and do support the process of achieving fundamental changes on a regular basis. Solutions rooted in practical needs of industries and social development are particularly impactful and effective. 3. The research and development of plant based foods have been rapidly growing around the world, especially in Europe and America. In China, as of 2020, new types of plant meat, dairy and egg products have also begun to flood the market. This new development domestically is still in its early stages. Compared with Western countries, consumer response is very different. Opportunities and challenges for the development of plant based products in the country coexist. The objective of many brands is to establish effective communication with consumers in a positive way to better contribute to changes in diet and food systems. قراءة القليل

1. How do faith based communities contribute to healthy and sustainable food transformation? In the 2020’s, faith based communities can make contributions in the following ways: - Share wisdoms of faiths and provide the public with alternative options. - Utilize traditional wisdoms of faiths practical ways so that they can be easily practiced and used to meet daily challenges. - Continue to advocate for plant based diet as an alternative to the practice of mercy release, which has environment consequences; these purchases in such high quantities still support the local factory farms thus not... قراءة المزيد solving the issue at its root. - Inspire members of the faith based community into practices of healthy and sustainable food transformation with its guiding principles, so that the wisdoms of faiths can be implemented into dietary practices. 2. How to maximize the influence of institutions and activists to jointly promote the "2030 Initiative" (the goal of reducing meat consumption by 30% in 2030)? Explore ways in which the plant based community and its supporters can collaborate, form consensus, and jointly promote our shared objectives. Sustainable transformation of the food system, animal welfare, youth leadership, and other initiatives promoted by the Good Food Fund, World Animal Protection, Act Asia, and other related organizations play an important role in enhancing the public's concept of plant based diet. Projects that solve practical issues and provide inspirations for diet transformation can support the process. For example, the Good Food Fund announced the launch of the “Meatless Monday” project in China and a list of initial participating restaurants and organizations. Representatives of some award-winning institutes also shared keynotes and visions for how they would promote this initiative. 3. How can domestic and international plant based products contribute to changes in diet and food systems in a positive way? Guests from domestic and international plant meat and dairy brands shared with us their experience in achieving this goal. From the perspective of the supplier, it begins with product innovation, offering the public an opportunity for lifestyle changes, and ensuring quality of products and users experience Food suppliers use localized brand strategies to spread a more environmentally friendly lifestyle, advocating young people to establish sustainable consumption habits, and obtain more recognition and support from consumers, thereby turning to more sustainable food consumption. قراءة القليل