Nutrition researchers said healthier, plant-based traditional foods and plant species are being shunned for Western fast-food diets laden with sugar, salt and fat. The challenges, however, are huge - not least because climate change threatens to reduce both the quantity and quality of crops, lowering yields. Governments, companies and aid agencies are now racing to shake up the world's unhealthy food habits, using legislation, educational campaigns, new and reformulated products, and greener ways of farming. assistant secretary-general and coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement, told a public forum in Rome this year that the future of food was "not in the calories. Vikas Garg, founder of abillionveg, a mobile phone app that reviews vegetarian and vegan dishes, demonstrating how to use it in Singapore on Feb 12, 2019. "If that doesn't happen, we could see civil unrest (and) mass migration." "We could have successful trade policies which enable food to be passed between countries in a sensible way, in a fair way," he added. Too many children are not growing and developing properly due to a lack of food while obesity is escalating, she said.Īfter decades of concentrating on how to feed an expanding global population, political leaders are realising that nutrition - not hunger - is the new frontier, and the focus is shifting from providing enough food to food that is good.Īlan Dangour, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said governments have not thought enough about how environmental change will impact food. "We've already reached the tipping point," she added, emphasising that "massive changes" were needed. Jessica Fanzo, a professor at Johns Hopkins University and co-chair of the annual Global Nutrition Report - described as the world's most comprehensive report on nutrition - said diets were "the number one cause of disease, disability and death".
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