This document discusses the importance of sustainable food systems for nutrition and food security. It makes three key points: 1) Good nutrition depends on healthy diets, 2) Healthy diets require healthy food systems as well as other supporting factors, and 3) Healthy food systems are made possible through appropriate policies, incentives, and governance. It provides examples from Vietnam, India, and Ethiopia of integrated approaches that have positively impacted nutrition by improving agricultural production and access to nutritious foods.
This document summarizes Maria Fonte's presentation on food security from the perspective of civic food networks. It discusses how the context around food security has become more complex since 2008 due to interconnected crises. While dominant policy thinking still focuses on sustainable intensification, an emerging view calls for a radical reconfiguration of the food system based on new social and ecological relations. Civic food networks and local food markets can contribute by addressing omissions around issues in the global North like food deserts, considering issues of scale and place rather than just large numbers, and envisioning a spatially localized food system built on civic values and proximity through their strategies of transition.
The document discusses the challenges of achieving global food security. It notes that the number of undernourished people has risen to over 1 billion and food access issues should be addressed by ensuring availability of food and quality/safety of food. A multi-dimensional approach is needed that considers the economics, politics, environment, and societal aspects of food security. Key challenges include poverty reduction, population growth, unequal income distribution, effects of climate change such as reduced crop yields, and use of food crops for non-food purposes like biofuels. Coordinated political action is required to effectively address the complex, interconnected issues related to achieving worldwide food security.
The document presents findings from the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) and discusses threats to global food security. It finds that after several years of improvement, global food security declined over the past year due to factors like rising food prices and migration. Climate change and natural resource depletion further threaten food security by increasing exposure, sensitivity and reducing resilience. International collaboration is needed to address these challenges and work towards the UN's goal of ending hunger by 2030.
This document provides an overview and introduction for a course on sustainable food and food security. It outlines the course structure and progression over multiple sessions. The course will explore issues around food supply, production and consumption from various perspectives. Students will complete independent research and presentations on topics related to community food projects. Assessments include a food diary and journal article. The introduction discusses concepts of sustainable food and debates around food security, the food system, and changing narratives in policy and politics. It presents an overview of some relevant sociological, economic and geographic theories.
Food insecurity and poverty trends, Association between food insecurity and poverty, causes and effects, food insecurity and poverty in the Ugandan context.
What\'s On America\'s Plate: A Dynamic Look at Today\'s Food Policy and Susta...mollycarey
This document provides an overview of key individuals and organizations involved in food policy and sustainability discussions in the US. It profiles those in leadership positions at the White House, CDC, FDA, and EPA who are working on issues related to food safety, public health, obesity, and the environment. It also outlines some of the legislation and initiatives being developed to reform the food system and address America's challenges around diet, health, and sustainability.
This document discusses hunger and strategies to achieve zero hunger by 2030. It defines hunger and provides statistics on the number of hungry people worldwide. The main causes of hunger are identified as poverty, natural disasters, political instability, and food shortages. The UN's Zero Hunger Challenge aims to end hunger by making food systems sustainable, ending rural poverty and malnutrition, eliminating food waste, and ensuring access to nutritious foods for all. Some strategies proposed to achieve this include creating jobs, investing in agriculture, educating women, promoting gender equality, using modern farming techniques, providing food assistance, supporting small farmers, developing drought-resistant crops, practicing sustainable agriculture, and providing agricultural subsidies. Coordinated efforts by governments, citizens,
Food security,Management of Food security science book
Climate refers to long term weather patterns measured over many years, including seasonal changes. Climate change is a slow, gradual change in weather that is caused by human activities like burning fossil fuels and deforestation. These activities release greenhouse gases that change the atmosphere. Climate change affects global systems like food production by impacting temperature, precipitation, glacial melting, and extreme weather events. Changes in climate can decrease crop yields and threaten food security by reducing the overall quantity of food available.
This document discusses efforts to achieve zero hunger by 2030 through the UN Secretary General's Zero Hunger Challenge. It finds that while progress has been made in reducing undernourishment, the goal of halving hunger by 2015 will not be reached. Over 840 million people remain undernourished as of 2011-2013, though this is down from 868 million in 2010-2012. The challenge coordinates 23 UN agencies around 5 elements: ensuring access to food, ending stunting in children under 2, sustainable food systems, doubling smallholder incomes, and halving food waste. It outlines regional trends in hunger reduction and price volatility effects. Addressing malnutrition requires tackling undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies,
Food security has four main dimensions: physical availability of food, economic and physical access to food, adequate food utilization, and stability of the other three dimensions over time. There are differences in the duration of food insecurity, including chronic, transitory, and seasonal, and in the severity, ranging from acute food insecurity to famine.
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With unemployment reaching record levels, the demand for food from food banks have also reached new highs. The report gives a detailed overview of Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the United States and the challenges facing food banks at a time when its needed the most.
This document estimates the investments needed to achieve zero hunger by 2030. It finds that an average annual investment of $267 billion is required, with $181 billion going to rural areas. This includes $116 billion for social protection programs to immediately assist extremely poor people, and $151 billion for pro-poor investments in agriculture and rural development to stimulate long-term income growth for the poor. Social protection would initially help the poor meet basic food needs, while targeted investments would accelerate rural economic growth and employment to gradually reduce poverty and hunger over time as poor people's incomes rise. A combination of social protection and pro-poor investments is needed to both immediately help the extreme poor while also fostering sustainable escapes from poverty.
The document discusses the need for sustainable agricultural practices and food systems to end hunger and malnutrition globally. It outlines the UN's Zero Hunger Challenge goals of eliminating stunted children, ensuring year-round access to food, making all food systems sustainable, doubling smallholder productivity and income, and reducing food loss and waste. Achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger requires supporting small farmers, promoting gender equality, tackling climate change, and other integrated solutions.
Food security is measured by the availability, accessibility, and affordability of food. Historically, central authorities ensured food security during famines by releasing food from storage. The 1974 World Food Conference defined food security as adequate food supplies to sustain consumption. Later definitions added the importance of demand and access. The 1996 World Food Summit defined food security as physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food. Food security is assessed based on the availability, access, utilization, and stability of food sources. Changes in climate and extreme weather can disrupt stability and livelihoods, challenging food security.
This document discusses the relationship between forests and achieving SDG 2 of ending hunger and malnutrition. It argues that forests directly and indirectly contribute to targets of ensuring access to food, ending malnutrition, conserving genetic diversity, and supporting smallholder farmers. Integrating forests into agriculture through approaches like agroforestry can help create more sustainable and resilient food production systems. However, challenges remain in changing policies, behaviors, land access issues, and longstanding institutional structures to fully realize the potential of forests for achieving food security goals. The takeaway is that forests are integral, not obstacles, to agriculture and meeting SDG 2 will require recoupling nature and food production through landscape-level integrated approaches.
The food system is the greatest driver of environmental degradation on Earth. It relies on a low-cost model that does not reflect the true social and environmental costs of food production. This has led to widespread malnutrition and hunger despite high overall food production. The industrial food system produces an overabundance of unhealthy, cheap calories but fails to provide adequate nutrition to nearly 1 billion people. At the same time, food-related diseases are a leading cause of death globally and one-third of all food is wasted. The current industrial model of global food governance is unsustainable and alternative paradigms are needed that place social and environmental values above low prices and corporate profits.
The document discusses food security challenges facing the world by 2050. Key points include:
- Global food production must increase 70% by 2050 to feed a rising population expected to reach 9.1 billion.
- Hunger currently affects over 821 million people worldwide and billions lack reliable access to nutritious food.
- Factors exacerbating food insecurity include population growth, changing diets, climate change, water scarcity, soil erosion, and plateauing crop yields.
- Solutions proposed are closing yield gaps, raising water productivity, balancing calorie and nutrient needs, reducing food waste, and supporting young farmers. UN agencies are working on programs like Zero Hunger to end hunger by 2030.
Prof Kym Anderson's talk from the Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society's event "Reframing the Food Agenda: Setting the Scene for Australia" held August 19, 2011
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The document advertises portable electric refrigerated storage units that provide on-site cold storage. The units can maintain temperatures below 0 degrees Fahrenheit up to 75 degrees Fahrenheit without costly diesel fuel. They are environmentally friendly, quieter than diesel powered storage, and have easy to use digital controls. The refrigerated storage systems are manufactured by Carrier and equipped with microprocessor technology. Units are available at ground level or dock height in 40-foot sizes.
This document summarizes Reinhold Resch's presentation on environmental aspects of food refrigeration. It discusses:
1. AHT Cooling Systems, a manufacturer of refrigeration equipment, which has a history dating back to 1442 and operates globally.
2. Environmental impacts of refrigerants used in food refrigeration, including their ozone depletion and global warming potential. More environmentally-friendly natural refrigerants like propane are preferable.
3. How energy efficiency and use of natural refrigerants can reduce the total equivalent warming impact (TEWI) of refrigeration systems. Variable speed compressors can lower energy use by 30%.
This document provides an overview of refrigeration concepts and components. It defines key terms like temperature, pressure, heat, latent heat and refrigerants. It describes the basic refrigeration circuit, including the evaporator, compressor, condenser and expansion process. It explains how refrigerants absorb heat during evaporation to produce cooling, and how the compressor pressurizes the refrigerant to drive the process.
This document discusses various food preservation methods including refrigeration, freezing, heating through sterilization, pasteurization and UHT, drying through freeze-drying, vacuum packing, irradiation, fermentation, smoking, and using preservatives like salt, sugar, vinegar and spices. Common preservation techniques are refrigeration for temperatures a few degrees above 0°C, freezing between 0°C and -18°C, deep freezing between -35°C and -150°C, and pasteurization at 72°C for 15 seconds followed by rapid cooling.
Food preservation by refrigeration and air conditioningAKSHAY PATHANIA
This document discusses refrigeration and air conditioning systems for food preservation. It begins by defining food preservation as retaining food for a period of time without contamination or loss of quality. Refrigeration systems preserve foods by using low temperatures to eliminate spoilage agents. Domestic refrigerators provide temporary storage between 0-4°C, while commercial refrigerators like walk-in coolers and display cases are used for short-term storage in grocery stores and restaurants. Cold storage facilities store foods above freezing for 1-15 days, considering factors like temperature, humidity and mixed storage. Frozen storage preserves foods long-term at -15°C or below by methods like air blast or immersion freezing.
Presented by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 12, 2016. More info: http://www.ifpri.org/event/geneva-launch-ifpris-2016-global-food-policy-report
The document discusses the need for a sustainable global food system by 2030 to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger and malnutrition. It outlines a vision for increasing food production by 35% while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by 25%. However, current trends are projected to fall short, with only a 13% increase in food and a 0.5% increase in undernourishment by 2030. The global food system needs reforms across producers, processors, and consumers to shift from exacerbating problems to delivering improved nutrition, health, and sustainability outcomes for all.
Food engineering is a multidisciplinary field that combines science, engineering, and microbiology to develop food and agricultural products and processes. It involves genetically modifying crops and livestock to grow faster/bigger and produce more in less space. However, there are concerns that food engineering technologies have not been adequately tested for safety, are not precise enough, and can lead to pesticides in crops and animal cruelty from factory farming practices. While companies claim it can address world hunger and costs, critics argue it has instead removed nutrients from food and increased corporate profits without lowering consumer prices.
Sanitary Design An Introduction to Standards of Design Excellence November 2015Bob (Robert L.) Long
This document discusses sanitary design principles for food processing facilities and equipment. It covers several key topics:
- It defines 4 sanitary zones within a facility based on cleanability and risk of contamination.
- It emphasizes that equipment, facilities, and processes must be designed for effective cleaning and maintenance in order to control pathogens. Proper design is important from both food safety and cost perspectives.
- It provides examples of industry standards and guidelines for sanitary design in food processing, including those from 3A Sanitary Standards and EHEDG. Factors like smooth surfaces, drainability, and easy disassembly are important.
- It discusses how to prioritize sanitary risks based on likelihood and impact,
The document provides a summary of the global, Asian, and North American frozen food markets from 2005-2010. It finds that the global market reached $194 billion in 2010, with Asia Pacific and North America markets valued at $16.5 billion and $42.9 billion respectively. The frozen pizza, potato, and ready meals markets all saw annual growth between 3-6% globally in this period. UK and North American trends show consumers increasingly choosing frozen foods for health, value and convenience. The outlook predicts continued strong growth in Asia Pacific and in healthy frozen product lines worldwide through 2012.
- The quality of frozen foods is influenced by storage temperature, with quality decreasing as temperatures increase. Maintaining temperatures of -18°C is accepted as safe for extended shelf life.
- Temperature fluctuations during storage can cause recrystallization of ice crystals and reduce quality through increased crystal size.
- Factors like freezer burn, moisture migration, lipid oxidation, protein denaturation, and enzymatic browning can negatively impact the quality of frozen foods during storage and must be controlled. Understanding these factors is key to minimizing quality loss.
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This document discusses nutrition promotion and its theories and methods. It defines nutrition promotion as promoting healthy eating and drinking habits for a healthy diet. Nutrition promotion includes both nutrition education to provide knowledge and skills to consumers, as well as efforts to influence food supply and availability. It notes that nutrition promotion must work within both the food system and health system, as foods are produced through agriculture but health depends on diet. The document outlines factors that influence food supply and demand, and principles of nutrition promotion like access, equity and diversity in food sources.
The dilemma of the global food system is a deeply existential one . On one hand we have a moral imperative to ensure we have uninterrupted food supply ,on the other , doing so based on the expansion of current practices will have a devastating impact on the environment
Worsley, A., Nutrition knowledge and food consumption: can nutrition knowledge change food behaviour? Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002. 11: p. S579-S585
Future of food - Insights from Discussions Building on an initial perspecti...Future Agenda
Insights from Discussions Building on an Initial Perspective by an initial perspective on the future of food by Prof. Wayne Bryden, Foundation Chair in Animal Science at the University of Queensland. This includes insights from events already completed adding to the starting point for the global future agenda discussions taking place through 2015 as part of the the futureagenda2.0 programme. www.futureagenda.org
I sette principi per un’agricoltura sostenibile descritti nel rapporto di Greenpeace sono:
1. restituire il controllo sulla filiera alimentare a chi produce e chi consuma, strappandolo alle multinazionali dell’agrochimica;
2. sovranità alimentare. L'agricoltura sostenibile contribuisce allo sviluppo rurale e alla lotta contro la fame e la povertà, garantendo alle comunità rurali la disponibilità di alimenti sani, sicuri ed economicamente sostenibili;
3. produrre e consumare meglio: è possibile già oggi, senza impattare sull’ambiente e la salute, garantire sicurezza alimentare e, contemporaneamente, lottare contro gli sprechi alimentari. Occorre diminuire il nostro consumo di carne e minimizzare il consumo di suolo
per la produzione di agro-energia. Dobbiamo anche riuscire ad aumentare le rese dove è necessario, ma con pratiche sostenibili;
4. incoraggiare la (bio)diversità lungo tutta la filiera, dal seme al piatto con interventi a tutto campo, dalla produzione sementiera all’educazione al consumo;
5. proteggere e aumentare la fertilità del suolo, promuovendo le pratiche colturali idonee ed eliminando quelle che invece consumano o avvelenano il suolo stesso;
6. consentire agli agricoltori di tenere sotto controllo parassiti e piante infestanti, affermando e promuovendo quelle pratiche (già esistenti) che garantiscono protezione e rese senza l'impiego di costosi pesticidi chimici che possono danneggiare il suolo, l'acqua,
gli ecosistemi e la salute di agricoltori e consumatori;
7. rafforzare la nostra agricoltura, perché si adatti in maniera efficace il sistema di produzione del cibo in un contesto di cambiamenti climatici e di instabilità economica.
Per contribuire alla crescita dell’agricoltura sostenibile, Greenpeace collabora con agricoltori e comunità rurali.
This document announces a roundtable discussion on exploring resilient and equitable food systems towards food security in the global south. The roundtable will discuss making food systems more resilient and equitable in response to the challenges of feeding a growing global population sustainably. Key issues that will be addressed include more sustainable agricultural practices that protect the environment, taking an integrated landscape approach to food and nutrition security, recognizing the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and governance structures that support resilient and equitable food systems. The roundtable aims to find solutions to ensure food security for vulnerable populations in the global south amidst issues of climate change, environmental degradation, and socioeconomic inequalities.
This document discusses food and nutrition security challenges and opportunities in smallholder farming systems. It notes that most of the world's poor live in rural areas and depend on smallholder farms. Ensuring sustainable food supply is challenging given issues like climate change. Smallholder farms are important for growth and poverty reduction. The document discusses strategies like promoting sustainable agriculture practices and women's empowerment to enhance food and nutrition security for smallholder farmers. It also examines challenges they face and opportunities to address issues like low productivity, lack of infrastructure and policy support.
Food and Beverages Sustainability
Concept
According to the Worldwatch Institute(2009) the major problem in the global food production system is in the unsustainable inputs that are sued.
As a result, many forms of environmental degradation occur; falling water tables, deterioration of pasture, soil erosion.
The Western diet, with its high consumption of fish, meat and dairy products is endangering the environment; croplands are diminishing and the ocean’s fish stocks are in decline.
These grim warning signs are matched with some positive signs of awareness in society for health, environmental stewardship and animal welfare.
As a response to the problems being caused by conventional farming techniques the term sustainable food is now used to describe food production that does not take more natural resources than it gives back.
Sustainable food producers see nature as an ally rather than as an obstacle, they are able to produce wholesome food in symbiosis with nature and the surrounding community.
Uk government Sustainable Development Commission, Sustainable food is:
Safe, healthy and nutritious, for consumers in shops, restaurants, schools, hospitals, etc. And can meet the needs of the less well-off people.
Provides a viable livelihood for farmers, processors and retailers, whose employees enjoy a safe and hygienic working environment whether in the United Kingdom or overseas.
Respects biophysical and environmental limits in its production and processing, while reducing energy consumption and improving the wider environment; it also respects the highest standards of animal health and welfare, compatible with the production of affordable food for all sectors of society.
Supports rural economies and the diversity of rural culture, in particular through an emphasis on local products that keep food miles to a minimum.
The term sustainable food may not sound exciting as a description but catering businesses who develop processes to improve the sustainability of the food they offer stand a better chance of meeting the growing demands of individual consumers.
Once the domain of students and hippies the movement has moved into mainstream society and is represented by some very prominent industry players
example
Starbucks, has started selling four categories of what it calls “sustainable coffees”.
The nature of sustainable food often means that they are more expensive than other types of food.
Inevitably, there is a danger that restaurant operations seeking to provide clients with sustainable food choices may increase prices.
There is limited evidence that individual restaurant consumers are prepared to both purchase and pay a premium for sustainable food products.
Consumer attitudes toward sustainable food
Although consumer awareness of sustainability is growing, it is not yet making a huge difference to what customers choose to buy when they shop for food or sit down to eat in a restaurant.
While the fami
The document discusses opportunities and solutions for sustainable food production to meet rising global demand. It proposes the following post-2015 goals: 1) Increase global food supply by 70-100% through higher productivity and less waste, 2) Eradicate hunger and malnutrition by 2030, and 3) Make agriculture more environmentally sustainable and resource efficient. Achieving these will require agro-ecological intensification through improved varieties, agronomic practices, and technologies to increase smallholder incomes and efficiency of inputs like water and fertilizer. Early solutions proposed include closing yield gaps, agronomic innovations, increasing mechanization, and technologies to save energy, water and labor.
Role of Agriculture Techniques in Eradication of World Hunger And Achieving F...Naveen Bind
The document discusses the role of advanced agricultural techniques in eradicating world hunger and achieving food security. It notes that three quarters of the world's hungry population lives in rural areas and depends on agriculture. Increasing agricultural productivity in poor countries, through techniques like conservation agriculture, is critical to reducing hunger by boosting food supply and farmer incomes. However, aid alone is not enough - trade reforms and domestic policy reforms are also needed. The document outlines several challenges to achieving food security, including climate change, lack of access in remote areas, and conflicts, as well as India's specific food security concerns like high levels of malnutrition and undernutrition.
This document discusses the links between biodiversity and food security. It notes that a rapid decline in biodiversity threatens food security by reducing crop diversity and genetic resources. However, biodiversity can also support food security through practices like agroforestry and mixed crop-livestock systems. The challenges of population growth, climate change, and low agricultural investment are also examined in relation to maintaining biodiversity and ensuring sustainable food production.
BY Lakendra singh maurya
Student of SHIATS,ALLAHABAD
Course= B.Sc.(hons.) Food Technology (Batch-2012)
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Importance of world food day and explaination of latest themes of world food day. it include all the objective of world food day.
Traditional and Indigenous foods for Food systems transformationFrancois Stepman
Presentation by Anna Lartey Professor of Nutrition.
Anna Lartey (PhD UC Davis); Sc.D. (h.c.McGill University)
Professor of Nutrition, Past President of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS 2013-2017)
at Webinar of 20 May 2021. Traditional and Indigenous Foods for Food Systems Transformation in Africa
Breaking the food-system divide with Smart Food - good for you, the planet an...ICRISAT
The document discusses the "food-system divide" that has led to most investments going to just three major crops - rice, wheat, and maize - despite the need for greater dietary diversity. It proposes focusing on "Smart Food" - foods that are nutritious, environmentally sustainable, and support farmers - such as millets and sorghum. The initiative aims to increase demand for and production of Smart Foods through scientific research, consumer awareness campaigns, supporting farmers, and filling knowledge gaps to help address issues like malnutrition, poverty, and climate change. The speaker seeks partners to help mainstream Smart Foods as staples globally.
This document discusses the role of crop protection in ensuring global food security. As the world's population grows by over 80 million people per year, demand for food increases, yet one in seven people currently face chronic hunger. The UN predicts global food demand will double by 2050. Crop protection products like pesticides play a vital role in controlling pests that destroy 20-40% of potential food production annually. Governments and crop protection can help transform food systems to provide livelihoods and achieve the goal of global food security by 2030.
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How a Breakthrough Product Portfolio Assessment is Changing Business Strategy...Sustainable Brands
Dirk Voeste of BASF Corporation discusses how BASF is changing its business strategy through a breakthrough product portfolio assessment that evaluates the sustainability of its solutions. Key points:
- BASF categorized all of its products into four categories based on their sustainability contributions. It aims to increase the percentage of "Accelerator" products that substantially contribute to sustainability.
- The assessment analyzed 60,000+ product applications representing €66.3 billion in sales. It found that 23% were Accelerators that outgrow markets with higher margins. Over 60% of BASF's R&D pipeline are Accelerators.
- BASF integrates sustainability fully into its investment decisions and portfolio management as a major lever to
Building Harmony: How to Champion Sustainability from Grain to BiscuitSustainable Brands
Mondelēz International is focused on sustainability across its biscuit operations in Europe. Albert Mathieu, President of the Biscuit Category Europe, discusses how the company works with farmers to grow crops sustainably and reduces environmental impact at factories. The goal is to champion sustainability from grain to finished biscuit.
Market Insights from Top Researchers: The Latest Intelligence on Customer Att...Sustainable Brands
This document discusses how companies can drive business model transformation from within by recognizing changing markets, fitting new models with corporate strategy, and building support networks. It provides examples of innovative business models and recommends mapping current models, planning the customer journey, and assembling all elements like market needs and strategic aims to form a new "jigsaw" business model. The goal is to help businesses develop profitable approaches to sustainability through the REBus project which provides free support for pilot programs across Europe.
Market Insights from Top Researchers: The Latest Intelligence on Customer Att...Sustainable Brands
This document summarizes research from the Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) on global sustainability trends. NMI conducts an annual tracking study of over 150,000 consumer interviews in 23 countries to understand attitudes and behaviors related to environmental and social responsibility. The research compares perspectives between developed countries like the US, UK, Germany and Japan, and emerging countries like Russia, China, India and Brazil. It finds that consumers in emerging countries generally care more about environmental protection and socially responsible business. The research also shows increases since 2010 in consumers choosing sustainable products over conventional options.
Market Insights from Top Researchers: The Latest Intelligence on Customer Att...Sustainable Brands
This document summarizes a presentation on the future of living spaces and workplaces given at Sustainable Brands London in November 2015. The presentation discusses research that identifies different consumer attitudes towards sustainability and circular concepts. It also outlines several emerging trends, like the squeeze on living space in urban areas, the blurring of work and personal life, the rise of responsive smart home technologies, community-focused "maker" movements, and a growing focus on zero waste solutions. These underlying technological and social changes are creating more opportunities for sustainable living than can be achieved through messaging alone. The presentation argues that businesses should focus on aligning with these emerging needs rather than just "selling sustainability."
Market Insights from Top Researchers: The Latest Intelligence on Customer Att...Sustainable Brands
1) The document summarizes a report by Wolff Olins investigating how leadership practices are changing to adapt to employees who are independent and individualistic.
2) It discusses tensions leaders face in creating an "uncorporation" culture that liberates employees while still meeting corporate goals. It also outlines shifts in leadership approaches over time from command-and-control to more distributed and purpose-driven models.
3) Key leadership approaches highlighted include acting as a "Designer in Chief" who focuses on culture rather than outputs, distributed leadership that trusts employees, and providing a "rough sense of purpose" rather than rigid ideologies.
New Tactics in Contextual Promotion of Healthy LifestylesSustainable Brands
Disney has had a longstanding commitment to promoting healthy lifestyles since 2006. This includes establishing nutritional guidelines for food and beverages, implementing promotional guidelines, and partnering with organizations like Change4Life. Disney aims to make healthy living fun and accessible for families through storytelling, experiences like Run Disney races, and partnerships with advocates, retailers, and chefs. Research shows that healthy living is universally important to parents worldwide who trust Disney to help children live active, well-balanced lives.
Sustainable Living Brands: Why Purpose Alone is Not Enough to Drive Sustainab...Sustainable Brands
Unilever's VP of Sustainable Business argues that while having a strong purpose is important for brands, it is not enough on its own to drive sustainable growth. Brands need to demonstrate their positive impact through transparency and accountability. She also stresses the importance of engaging consumers in purpose by showing how individual actions can contribute to collective change.
Leveraging the New UN Sustainable Development Goals: Expectations and Engagem...Sustainable Brands
The document discusses a presentation by Anna Swaithes from SABMiller on leveraging the UN Sustainable Development Goals for brands. SABMiller has over 200 local brands consumed in over 80 countries. SABMiller is committed to contributing to the Global Goals and having three brands in each market build sustainable development messages into their brand activations by 2020. Examples are provided of brands in India, Uganda, and Colombia that are engaging in programs focused on livelihoods, sustainable supply chains, and supporting workers and farmers.
Leveraging the New UN Sustainable Development Goals: Expectations and Engagem...Sustainable Brands
This document discusses leveraging the UN Sustainable Development Goals for brands. It provides an introduction to the goals, including ending poverty, and outlines expectations for business engagement. Civil society organizations see opportunities for businesses to contribute through their core activities. The business case for alignment with the SDGs includes access to new markets among the 4 billion living in poverty and growth in green technologies worth over $3 trillion by 2020.
Video traffic on the Internet is constantly growing; networked multimedia applications consume a predominant share of the available Internet bandwidth. A major technical breakthrough and enabler in multimedia systems research and of industrial networked multimedia services certainly was the HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) technique. This resulted in the standardization of MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) which, together with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), is widely used for multimedia delivery in today’s networks. Existing challenges in multimedia systems research deal with the trade-off between (i) the ever-increasing content complexity, (ii) various requirements with respect to time (most importantly, latency), and (iii) quality of experience (QoE). Optimizing towards one aspect usually negatively impacts at least one of the other two aspects if not both. This situation sets the stage for our research work in the ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory (Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services; https://athena.itec.aau.at/), jointly funded by public sources and industry. In this talk, we will present selected novel approaches and research results of the first year of the ATHENA CD Lab’s operation. We will highlight HAS-related research on (i) multimedia content provisioning (machine learning for video encoding); (ii) multimedia content delivery (support of edge processing and virtualized network functions for video networking); (iii) multimedia content consumption and end-to-end aspects (player-triggered segment retransmissions to improve video playout quality); and (iv) novel QoE investigations (adaptive point cloud streaming). We will also put the work into the context of international multimedia systems research.
GDG Cloud Southlake #34: Neatsun Ziv: Automating AppsecJames Anderson
The lecture titled "Automating AppSec" delves into the critical challenges associated with manual application security (AppSec) processes and outlines strategic approaches for incorporating automation to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. The lecture is structured to highlight the inherent difficulties in traditional AppSec practices, emphasizing the labor-intensive triage of issues, the complexity of identifying responsible owners for security flaws, and the challenges of implementing security checks within CI/CD pipelines. Furthermore, it provides actionable insights on automating these processes to not only mitigate these pains but also to enable a more proactive and scalable security posture within development cycles.
The Pains of Manual AppSec:
This section will explore the time-consuming and error-prone nature of manually triaging security issues, including the difficulty of prioritizing vulnerabilities based on their actual risk to the organization. It will also discuss the challenges in determining ownership for remediation tasks, a process often complicated by cross-functional teams and microservices architectures. Additionally, the inefficiencies of manual checks within CI/CD gates will be examined, highlighting how they can delay deployments and introduce security risks.
Automating CI/CD Gates:
Here, the focus shifts to the automation of security within the CI/CD pipelines. The lecture will cover methods to seamlessly integrate security tools that automatically scan for vulnerabilities as part of the build process, thereby ensuring that security is a core component of the development lifecycle. Strategies for configuring automated gates that can block or flag builds based on the severity of detected issues will be discussed, ensuring that only secure code progresses through the pipeline.
Triaging Issues with Automation:
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Identifying Ownership Automatically:
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2. Healthy people depend
on healthy food systems
Malnutrition today imposes high costs on
society, and comes in many different forms:
One out of every four children in the world under the age of five is
stunted. This means 165 million children who are so malnourished
they will never reach their full physical and cognitive potential.
About 2 billion people in the world
lack vitamins and minerals that
are essential for good health.
Some 1.4 billion people are overweight. Of these,
about one-third are obese and at risk of coronary
heart disease, diabetes or other health problems.
What’s more, different types of
malnutrition can coexist within a country,
a household or even an individual.
Malnourished women are more likely to give birth
to smaller babies, who start life with a higher risk of
physical and cognitive impairment. In fact, maternal
malnutrition is one of the main ways that poverty
is transmitted from generation to generation.
The cost to the global economy caused by
malnutrition – as a result of lost productivity and
direct health care costs – could account for as much
as 5 percent of global income. That is equivalent
to US$3.5 trillion per year or US$500 per person.
At the same time, obese parents may suffer from
vitamin deficiencies themselves and their children
may be stunted because of low birth weight and
poor care and feeding practices. Stunted children
may even have a greater risk of developing obesity
and related diseases in adulthood. Most countries
in the world face many types of malnutrition.
Wiping out malnutrition worldwide is a daunting
challenge, but the return on investment would
be high. If the global community invested
US$1.2 billion per year for five years on reducing
micronutrient deficiencies, for example, the
results would be better health, fewer child
deaths and increased future earnings. It would
generate annual gains worth US$15.3 billion –
a benefit-to-cost ratio of almost 13 to 1.
3. The importance
of ‘food systems’
A food system is made up of the environment,
people, institutions and processes by
which agricultural products are produced,
processed and brought to consumers. Every
aspect of the food system has an effect
on the final availability and accessibility of
diverse, nutritious foods – and therefore on
consumers’ ability to choose healthy diets.
Of course, there are other factors,
too: household income, prices, and
consumer knowledge, for example.
What is more, policies and interventions on
food systems are rarely designed with nutrition
as their primary objective. Even when they
are, impacts are difficult to attribute and
researchers sometimes conclude that food
system interventions are ineffective in reducing
malnutrition. In contrast, the effectiveness
of medical actions – such as giving vitamin
supplements, which address specific nutrient
deficiencies – is more easily observed.
But medical interventions cannot substitute
in the long term for the broader nutritional
benefits offered by healthy, balanced diets
from a well-functioning food system.
Healthy diets
are balanced
in quality and
quantity
All over the world, the first
recommendation of nutritionists
is “eat a variety of foods”. This
simple slogan represents one of
the key principles for ensuring
dietary quality. Quantity – the
amount of food and its energy
content – is still important. Dietary
energy needs to be enough, but not
too much, and must be balanced
by activity level. A diverse diet
containing balanced amounts and
combinations of fresh fruits and
vegetables, cereals, fats and oils,
legumes, and animal-source foods,
is likely to provide the full range of
nutrients needed by most people
to lead healthy and active lives.
4. Impact of
environmental
degradation
Agriculture depends heavily on natural resources.
It can cause environmental harm, but it can
also provide environmental benefits.
Agriculture is a dominant force behind many
environmental threats, including climate change,
land scarcity and degradation, freshwater
scarcity, biodiversity loss, degradation of forest
and fishery resources, and contamination from
agricultural chemicals. The crop and livestock
sectors use 70 percent of freshwater resources
and, together with forestry, occupy 60 percent
of the Earth’s land surface. Livestock alone uses
80 percent of global crop and pasture area.
Oceans cover 70 percent of the planet’s
surface and sustain fisheries and aquaculture,
and aquaculture accounts for a growing
share of land and freshwater use.
Approximately 60 percent of the world’s ecosystems
are degraded or used unsustainably, which poses
serious threats to food security and nutrition.
Sustainable food
systems are efficient
By definition, sustainable food systems
produce nutritious diets for all people
today while also protecting the capacity
of future generations to feed themselves.
Sustainable food systems use resources
efficiently at every stage along the way
from farm to fork. Getting the most food
from every drop of water, plot of land,
speck of fertilizer and minute of labour
saves resources for the future and makes
systems more sustainable. Turning waste
products like manure and food scraps
into valuable fertilizer or energy can
improve sustainability. Pests and diseases
damage crops and animals, and reduce the
quantity and quality of food available for
humans. Using safe and effective methods
to control these losses in production,
processing and storage helps make food
systems more sustainable. Consumers
can do their part by choosing balanced
diets and minimizing food waste.
5. Addressing
malnutrition
takes integrated
action
The immediate causes of malnutrition
are complex. They include:
• inadequate availability of (and access
to) safe, diverse, nutritious food;
• lack of access to clean water,
sanitation and health care; and
• inappropriate child feeding and
adult dietary choices.
The root causes of malnutrition are even more complex and encompass the broader economic, social,
political, cultural and physical environment. Addressing malnutrition, therefore, requires integrated action
and complementary interventions in agriculture and the food system, in natural resource management, in
public health and education, and in broader policy domains. Because the necessary actions typically involve
several government institutions, high-level political support is needed to motivate a coordinated effort.
Producing more
food: good, but
not enough
Higher productivity in agriculture contributes to
better nutrition by raising incomes – especially in
countries where agriculture accounts for a large
share of the economy and employment – and by
reducing the cost of food for all consumers. It is
important to realize, though, that the impact of
agricultural growth is slow and may not be enough
to bring about a rapid reduction in malnutrition.
Steady increases in agricultural productivity
will continue to be crucial in the coming
decades: production of basic staple foods
will need to increase by 60 percent to meet
the expected growth in demand.
But healthy diets are more than staple foods.
They are diverse, containing a balanced and
adequate combination of energy and nutrients.
For these reasons, the priorities for agricultural research
and development must become more nutrition-sensitive,
with a stronger focus on nutrient-dense foods such as
fruits, vegetables, legumes and animal-source foods.
Greater efforts must be directed towards interventions
that diversify what small-scale farmers produce –
with integrated farming systems, for example.
Another promising area of work involves raising the
micronutrient content of staple foods – either through
“biofortification”, or by encouraging the use of varieties
with higher nutrient content, or by taking a second look
at underutilized, nutrient-rich staple crop species.
Interventions involving agriculture are
generally more effective when combined with
nutrition education and implemented with
sensitivity to the different gender roles.
Consumer choice and behaviour change
Making systems more nutrition-enhancing so that food is available, accessible, diverse and
nutritious is key, but so is the need to help consumers make healthy dietary choices.
Promoting behaviour change through nutrition education and information campaigns – while also addressing
household sanitation and ensuring appropriate foods for all ages and life stages, particularly the first 1000
days – has proved effective. Even in locations where undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies persist
as the primary problems, it is important to also act to prevent a rise in overweight and obesity, especially in
the long run. Behaviour change can also reduce waste and contribute to the sustainable use of resources.
6. Supply chain
pros and cons
Traditional and modern food systems
coexist and evolve as economies grow
and urbanization increases.
Modern supply chains integrate storage,
distribution and retailing – and offer efficiency
gains that can lead to lower prices for
consumers and higher incomes for farmers.
Processing and packaging of nutrient-dense
but highly perishable foods like milk, vegetables
and fruit can make a variety of nutritious foods
more available and affordable to consumers yearround. On the other hand, highly processed,
energy-dense foods may contribute to overweight
and obesity when consumed in excess.
Modern food processing and distribution also offer
opportunities for the use of fortified foods, which
can make important contributions to nutrition.
Although supermarkets are spreading rapidly
in low-income countries, most poor consumers
in rural and urban areas still buy most of their
food through traditional food distribution
networks. These traditional outlets are the
primary channel for nutrient-rich foods such
as fresh fruits and vegetables and livestock
products, although they increasingly carry
processed and packaged foods, too. The use of
traditional retail outlets for distributing fortified
foods such as iodized salt is another proven
strategy for improving nutritional outcomes.
Improved sanitation, food handling, and storage
technologies in traditional food systems could boost
efficiency and improve the safety and nutritional
quality of foods. Reducing food and nutrient
losses and waste throughout food systems could
make important contributions to better nutrition
and relieve pressure on productive resources.
International
nutrition
conference
The “International Conference on Nutrition 2” will
take place in Rome from 19 to 21 November 2014.
The Conference will review progress made since the
previous nutrition conference in 1992, and tackle
the challenges and opportunities for improving
nutrition in a new global environment. ICN2 will
explore how governments and others can better
work together to address the multiple burdens of
malnutrition, and offer a forum for sharing practical
tools, guidelines and experiences in improving
nutritional outcomes. Organized by FAO and WHO,
this high-level ministerial conference will seek to
propose a flexible policy framework to meet the
major nutrition challenges of the next decades.
Institutional
and policy
environment
for nutrition
Some countries have achieved significant reductions
in malnutrition in recent decades. But progress has
been uneven and there is a pressing need to make
better use of the food system for improved nutrition.
Malnutrition and its underlying causes are complex.
This means that the most effective approaches will
involve multiple sectors and a range of different
actors. Such an approach – with effective planning,
coordination and collaboration – requires better
governance, based on sound data, a common
vision and, above all, political leadership.
7. Three key
messages
1
Good nutrition
depends on
healthy diets.
2
Healthy diets
require healthy
food systems –
along with
education, health,
sanitation and
other factors.
3
Healthy food
systems are
made possible
by appropriate
policies,
incentives and
governance.
Example 1: Viet Nam’s VAC system
In Viet Nam, the VAC (Vuon, Ao, Chuong – Crop farming, Aquaculture, Animal husbandry) system is an integrated
approach that has produced positive effects on nutrition. The VAC system typically includes: a pond stocked with
fish placed close to the home; livestock or poultry pens situated near or over the pond to provide an immediate
source of organic fertilization; and gardens that include both annual and perennial crops for year-round food
provision and products for market. Viet Nam’s national nutrition survey 2000 showed marked improvements
from 1987 in terms of animal-source foods and fruit and vegetable consumption. Although this progress was
due to multiple factors, VAC played an important role. As a result, the prevalence of child malnutrition and
chronic energy deficiency in women of child-bearing age decreased, and there was a substantial increase in the
incomes and the health and nutrition of Vietnamese rural populations.
Example 2: Boosting soil fertility in India
Soils in many parts of the world are severely degraded. Improving the fertility of soils can enhance both the
sustainability of agricultural production and the nutritional content of crops. The use of organic or inorganic
fertilizers containing balanced concentrations of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus can enhance crop yields
and improve micronutrient concentrations in crops. Adding specific nutrient elements to fertilizers or irrigation
water can further enhance yields and mineral concentrations in crops. In the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, yields improved by 20 to 80 percent and a further 70 to 120 percent when
other nutrient elements were added in conjunction with nitrogen and phosphorus. These results were found for
a number of crops – including maize, sorghum, greengram, pigeonpea, castor, chickpea, soybean and wheat.
Yield increases achieved through balanced crop fertilization can reduce the land area needed to grow staple
crops and thus add to the sustainability of the farming system.
Example 3: Making the most of goats in Ethiopia
In some communities, micronutrient intakes can be enhanced more sustainably and effectively by strengthening
animal husbandry. For example, in Ethiopia, the important role of goats in the mixed farming systems of the highand mid-altitude areas led to development of the FARM-Africa dairy Goat Development Project. The project
focused on increasing milk consumption and incomes by raising the productivity of local goats managed by
women, through a combination of better management techniques and genetic improvements.The intervention
led to an increase in the per capita availability of milk by 119 percent, energy from animal sources by 39 percent,
protein by 39 percent and fat by 63 percent. Analysis of data on households in the project area demonstrated
a considerable improvement in nutritional status and family welfare. As with many such projects, integrating
nutritional, environmental and gender considerations led to improved outcomes.