Agriculture policy for health, economy & environment

Healthy’ agriculture must be the goal whereby nutritional considerations become part of multinational agricultural policy-making, and at the same time, agricultural considerations must be incorporated into the improvement of nutrition and health. As Feenstra (2002) aptly put it—we should endeavour towards ‘A collaborative effort to build more locally-based, self-reliant food economies—one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption are integrated to enhance economic, environmental and social health’. 

 

Food consumption trends and drivers

John Kearney

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2010 365 2793-2807; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0149. Published 16 August 2010