What are opportunities post Covid 19 to redevelop food systems
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If we are to achieve the UN’s SDGs by 2030, immediate and urgent action is required to transform how food is produced, accessed, valued and consumed. Recognition of this need is growing, driven by rapidly increasing concerns regarding diet-related health effects, the damage to ecosystem services, links to climate change and distress among multiple millions of small-scale food producers.
The transformation of our food systems is an idea whose time has come but which poses one of the greatest leadership opportunities and challenges of our generation. It will require an unprecedented degree of cooperation if we are to succeed. The recently announced UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 will raise food system transformation to the highest level, affirming its centrality to the achievement of the majority of the SDGs.