With one in five deaths associated with poor-quality diets, a policy brief urges policymakers to prioritize the reduction of food loss and waste as a way of improving people's access to nutritious and healthy food. The brief, Preventing nutrient loss and waste across the food system: Policy actions for high-quality diets, points out that poor-quality diets are now a greater public health threat than malaria, tuberculosis or measles. Meanwhile, approximately one third of all the food produced for human consumption never reaches the consumer's plate or bowl.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/preventing-nutrient-loss-and-waste-across-food-system-policy-actions-high-quality
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/GlopanFoodLossWastePolicyBrief.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/global-panel-agriculture-and-food-systems-nutrition-0
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-supply
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nutrition
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects