Roadmap Series
Governance: One Health food systems
Published on 04/08/2021
What are the key elements of One Health food systems? What are the next steps to achieve this transformation?
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This event featured panellists Dr Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and Professor Alan Dangour, Professor in Food and Nutrition for Global Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). It was moderated by Professor Robyn Alders, Chatham House Global Health programme, and took place on Wednesday 4 August 2021.
Watch the recording here.
PANELLISTS' KEY MESSAGES
- The UNFSS 2021 and COVID-19 have opened important policy windows that must be leveraged to develop a common vision and to chart a path to synergistic actions.
- One health governance mechanisms must be holistic from community to global, and consider, plant, animal, human, environment and planetary health. The inter-linkages are critical to inform actions.
- Do not ignore existing policy instruments in LMICs and elsewhere from which momentum can be built.
- Food systems work within environmental “boundaries” – addressing one system while ignoring the other will not be sufficient.
- Climate change will have implications for global food yields, prices, availability etc., especially in LMICs.
- 3 Ts: Technology (poultry production and consumption), Transition (towards greener futures), Transformation (vision rather than incremental change).
Further reading
- Hospes O. and Brons A. (2016 ) Food system governance: A systematic literature review in ‘Food systems governance: Challenges for justice, equality and human rights’, Routledge.
- Participatory food systems governance project – Lakehead University, Canada.
- Harris F. et al. (2020) Trading water: virtual water flows through interstate cereal trade in India, Environmental Research Letters.
- Scheelbeek P.F.D. et al. (2020) UK’s fruit and vegetable supply increasingly dependent on imports from climate vulnerable producing countries, Nat Food 1, 705–712
- Dorr A. and Tony Seba (2021) Rethinking Energy – The Great Stranding: How Inaccurate Mainstream LCOE Estimates are Creating a Trillion-Dollar Bubble in Conventional Energy Assets, RethinkX
- National Food Strategy: The Plan – independent review (2021)
