{"id":8179,"date":"2021-07-12T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/?p=8179"},"modified":"2021-07-15T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:52:44","slug":"agriculture-for-healthy-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/agricultural-industry\/agriculture-for-healthy-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable agriculture is the leading way to a healthy diet, FAO says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The growing food insecurity and the increase of obesity show the importance of a proper diet. If we want to provide universal access to it, according to FAO, we need to change our production system<\/h2>\n

by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n

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A healthy diet requires sustainable agriculture<\/strong>. Especially in a growing food insecurity scenario. That’s the message sent by FAO<\/strong> in its latest regional report<\/a> for Central Asia and Europe. “Although severe hunger has not been a major issue in Europe and Central Asia in the past 20 years, the region is in part facing an increase of moderate food insecurity – understood as irregular access to nutritious and sufficient food -, while also dealing with the widespread rapid growth of obesity,\u201d the study says.<\/p>\n

“The past 12 months have shown that our health and the functioning of our agrifood systems are fundamental – and that more effort is needed,” said Vladimir Rakhmanin<\/strong>, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative. The FAO therefore calls for supporting, also financially, farmers who “have been particularly affected by the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic”. It also invites to pursue that new agricultural model that FAO has long supported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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UNEP urges a new fertilizers policy for a sustainable agriculture<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n