May 8, 2015

New: Healthy Food for a Healthy World (But How to Make It Happen?)

This post originally appeared on the Development Horizons Blog.

By Lawrence Haddad, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

The influential Chicago Council on Global Affairs has produced a new report “Healthy Food for a Healthy World” with an analysis and recommendations for the US Government on how agriculture and food can better leverage improved nutrition.

The report does a good job of outlining a series of outcomes that we would like to see along the food system chain: from natural resources and inputs (e.g. secure land tenure for women) to health and nutrition (e.g. coordinate food system interventions with health and social protection programmes).

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