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TOPIC: Nutritious Diets Accessible to All There is a lack of consumer awareness and education on the importance of healthy diets. Therefore, there is a need to promote healthier diets (e.g. starting in schools from an early age) and raise awareness about the impact of diets on health but also about the sustainability of the food systems (fostering local, seasonal products, reconnecting the consumers with the raw products, etc.). This can be done through a number of ways: First, encourage increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, wholegrain cereals, nuts and pulses, particularly locally-p
... Lire la suiteroduced varieties. Second, promote more sustainably-produced food products/meals. It is important to create a food environment that makes it easier to choose healthy and sustainable diets. In this sense, it is crucial to increase the availability and accessibility of healthy, sustainable food options by ensuring that citizens can easily access places where a diversity of healthy food is sold. Food governance can be a tool to avoid having places where mainly high processed or/and high in sugar food is sold. It is important to use investments in sustainable and resilient solutions in wholesale markets’ operations and supply chain management so they can prepare for disruptions and crises since they are among the most resilient actors ensuring continuous supply of healthy diets. Thus, it is crucial that these structures are prepared for future challenges. Third, create platforms and mechanisms that bring food system stakeholders together for discussion or shared implementation of effective solutions and compliance. For example, UN Food Systems Summit or shared mandatory due diligence can be implemented in the European Union for instance. Fourth, use public procurement for public facilities serving food (e.g., school canteens, hospitals) to support the intake of healthy diets and the promotion sustainable produce. Fifth, promote healthy cooking practices with local fruits and vegetables through local authorities, (inter)national institutions and NGOs in the food and health sector so that malnutrition is addressed. Sixth, address the issue of affordability, including through specific demonstrated nutritional needs for vulnerable groups and support diet-related health programs. Seventh, promote short supply chains, learning from present practices, for example, promotion of street markets that offer a wide variety of fresh products with a discounted price at the end of the market, facilitating access to healthier diets for lower income households. Another example is Florence wholesale market where leftover fresh food is sold for a lower price to the public twice a week. Food re-distribution and collaborations with food banks should also be fostered. There is a need to encourage transparency and traceability. It is important to provide transparent, voluntary product information to consumers (e.g. through digital means) and foster responsible food marketing and advertising practices by setting standards, certification and labels. Lastly, improve policy coherence and highlight the role of wholesale markets in ensuring virtuous linkages among actors to ensure fresh food availability. However, key challenges still remain. In fact, many of the innovations or promotions of healthy diets proposed requires an extra investment from different stakeholders, including producers, without any guarantee of having this effort rewarded. They not only have an economic interest in continuing with current practices but also these new implementations take time to be understood and accepted by them all. Lire moins
Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 3, 5
Mots-clés : Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Innovation, Policy