Big Food, Food Systems, And Global Health

2014 ◽  
pp. 321-330
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Food Systems

scholarly journals Legal and human rights-based approaches to healthy diets and sustainable food systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
D W Patterson ◽  
K Buse ◽  
R Magnusson ◽  
B C A Toebes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Sustainable Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Healthy Diets ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
The Right

Abstract Issue Malnutrition in all its forms poses daunting challenges to global health and development. The agriculture sector is a significant contributor to global warming. COVID-19 has pushed many people into poverty, including food poverty. A radical rethink of business models, food systems, civil society involvement, and national and international governance is required to address the interlinked crises of COVID-19, obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. International human rights law, institutions and mechanisms provide important opportunities for norm setting, advocacy and accountability. Yet these pathways are under-utilised by both governments and civil society. Description The global AIDS response demonstrated the power of a human rights-based approach. United Nations' HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Guidelines greatly influenced the global consensus for effective, evidence-based approaches. The Guidelines also informed resolutions of the UN General Assembly and its Human Rights Council, contributing to more affordable medicines, an unprecedented increase in people on treatment, less stigmatising health services, the empowerment of marginalised groups, and the institutionalisation of norms, including “no one left behind.” Human rights-based approaches have also been successfully utilised in tobacco control. Results In 2019, 180 experts from 38 countries published an open call on WHO and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to initiate an inclusive process to develop guidelines on human rights, healthy diets and sustainable food systems. Most signatories were from the health and development sectors, demonstrating the increasingly broad interest in using human rights mechanisms to address global health challenges. Lessons Opportunities exist to transform food systems and create healthier food environments and a healthier planet by clarifying existing international obligations to progressively realise the right to food and the right to health. Key messages Market forces, alone, are failing to deliver healthy diets and sustainable food systems. International legal frameworks and accountability mechanisms provide opportunities for engagement and action. Human rights guidelines can help mobilize multisectoral action, strengthen State and private sector accountability, and deepen community engagement in the urgent task of achieving Agenda 2030.

scholarly journals Historicising global nutrition: critical reflections on contested pasts and reimagined futures

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. e006337
Author(s):  
Erica Marie Nelson ◽  
Nicholas Nisbett ◽  
Stuart Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Previous Cycle ◽  
Global Systems ◽  
Global Nutrition

The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked a range of economic shocks, food systems shocks, public health crises and political upheavals across the globe, prompting a rethink of associated global systems. Prepandemic anticolonial movements that challenged hierarchies of race, space, gender and expert knowledge in global health took on new meaning in the context of the unequal impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as it moved through different kinds of spaces and distinct political contexts. In light of these dynamics, and the desire of many current practitioners in global health to reimagine the future, the need for critical analyses of the recent past have become more urgent. Here we challenge linear understandings of progress in global health—with a focus on the field of nutrition—by returning to consider a previous cycle of dramatic social, political and economic change that prompted serious challenges to the dominance of Western powers and US-based philanthro-capitalists. With a ‘global’ health and nutrition audience in mind, we put forward considerations on why a better understanding of the continuities and divergences between this past and the present moment are necessary to challenge a status quo that was, and is, highly flawed.

Chapter 13 Big Food, Food Systems, and Global Health

2017 ◽  
pp. 231-240
Author(s):  
David Stuckler ◽  
Marion Nestle
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Food Systems

scholarly journals Big Food, Food Systems, and Global Health

PLoS Medicine ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. e1001242 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Stuckler ◽  
Marion Nestle
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Food Systems

Global health has a stake in the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit

The Lancet ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate R Schneider ◽  
Jessica C Fanzo ◽  
Lawrence Haddad ◽  
Jose Rosero Moncayo
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Food Systems

scholarly journals What can zero hunger do for global health?

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-152
Author(s):  
Estefanía Custodio Cerezales
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Social Determinant ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition ◽  
Zero Hunger ◽  
Bidirectional Interactions ◽  
Social Determinant Of Health ◽  
The Eu

The sustainable development goal#2 or “zero hunger” aims at ending hunger and malnutrition, and proposes five targets covering nutrition, food security, agriculture and biodiversity. Nutrition is a critical part of health as malnutrition poses significant threats to human health. Thus, tackling malnutrition can contribute to global health throughout many different pathways. This note explores some of these pathways, as well as the interlinkages of the other “zero hunger” targets and global health. Although the links between food security and nutrition and health are more straightforward, there are also bidirectional interactions between the agriculture and biodiversity-related targets and health to take into account when designing new approaches to tackle global health and zero hunger. In this note, we recommend to consider agriculture as a social determinant of health with an important role to play. Moreover, we advocate for a systemic approach that integrates health and sustainability within food systems, as proposed by the EU “From Farmto Fork” strategy.

Where’s the fat? Freeze-fracture analysis of ingredient interactions in food systems

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 48-49
Author(s):  
Jean Fincher
Keyword(s):  
Lipid Droplets ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Freeze Fracture ◽  
Food Science ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Fat Reduction ◽  
Important Trend ◽  
Conventional Foods ◽  
Whipped Cream

An important trend in the food industry today is reduction in the amount of fat in manufactured foods. Often fat reduction is accomplished by replacing part of the natural fat with carbohydrates which serve to bind water and increase viscosity. It is in understanding the roles of these two major components of food, fats and carbohydrates, that freeze-fracture is so important. It is well known that conventional fixation procedures are inadequate for many food products, in particular, foods with carbohydrates as a predominant structural feature. For some food science applications the advantages of freeze-fracture preparation procedures include not only the avoidance of chemical fixatives, but also the opportunity to control the temperature of the sample just prior to rapid freezing.In conventional foods freeze-fracture has been used most successfully in analysis of milk and milk products. Milk gels depend on interactions between lipid droplets and proteins. Whipped emulsions, either whipped cream or ice cream, involve complex interactions between lipid, protein, air cell surfaces, and added emulsifiers.

Plant Medicines Key to Global Health

2011 ◽  
pp. 061611145657
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Cordell
Keyword(s):  
Global Health

Combining a global health budget with a market-driven delivery system: Can it be done?

1993 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Bingaman ◽  
Robert G. Frank ◽  
Carrie L. Billy
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Health Budget ◽  
Market Driven
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