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“Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support environmental sustainability; however, they are currently threatening both.”

This sentence — the opening statement of the EAT-Lancet Report published last year — perfectly summarizes the views and positions of a growing number of scholars and experts in the world.

Food production is indeed the largest current cause of global environmental change. Agriculture occupies about 40 percent of global land, and food systems are responsible for up to 30 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions and 70 percent of freshwater use. At the same time, hundreds of millions of people are food insecure, with wide-scale undernutrition still occurring alongside increasing prevalence of overweight, obesity, and non-communicable diseases, leading many to conclude: “Our food system is broken, we need to fix it.”

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Source : CGIAR

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