Policy‐makers have a critical role to play in transforming our food system to enable a sustainable future for our growing global population. Food production and consumption practices must shift to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050 while respecting planetary boundaries and promoting human health.2 This...
New Zealand is currently facing an obesity and non communicable diseases (NCDs) epidemic. Recent studies have largely attributed these health issues to insufficient food and low-quality diets that cause micronutrient deficiencies. Improving healthy diets requires broader thinking and collaboration, particularly around maintaining sustainable food systems,...
New brief from the Centre for Food Policy at City, GAIN and John Hopkins sets out 42 policies and actions with potential to get food systems working for healthier diets for all. Read research ...
The pandemic has given us the chance to build a more secure, sustainable, resilient food system – one that is healthier and supports people more fairly. This is the second essay in a new series examining the effects of Covid-19 on New Zealand, in partnership...
Current food systems are failing to guide children towards healthy diets. This paper presents a tool to identify the actions needed to reorient food systems to become more child-centred from a nutrition perspective. To connect the dots between children's lives, their food environments and food...
Kai Town came about following a national Healthy Families focus on the kaupapa of kai. Armed with our learning from a previous Healthy Families Far North kai project in Kaikohe, a design challenge question was posed that was “How might we flood Kaitāia with an...
The 2020 Global Nutrition Report calls on governments, businesses and civil society to step up efforts to address malnutrition in all its forms and tackle injustices in food and health systems. This report looks beyond global and national patterns, revealing significant inequalities in nutrition outcomes within countries...
The food system is crucial for well-being, healthcare costs, health disparities and planetary sustainability. Coordinated evidence-based multi-sectoral policies will need to play a critical role in the future....
This UK paper considers how many policies influencing food systems could be interconnected and move food up the policy agenda in a systems approach in an integrated way....
The first INFORMAS national food environments and policies survey in New Zealand: A blueprint country profile for measuring progress on creating healthy food environments sur Using NZ as a case study, this study proposes a blueprint country profile for measuring progress on creating healthy food environments....
