Abstract
The future of food is one of the major world-wide challenges. In this perspective paper, we set-up a framework for a multi-disciplinary future food systems approach, building on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We hereby combine a truly sustainable approach including social science aspects combined with the One Health approach. Scientists from a large number of backgrounds have addressed four key areas that are discussed in more detail in this paper: (i) nature inspired food production, (ii) sustainable immune resilience, (iii) social and cultural change of food behavior, and (iv) food fairness. We believe that transformations to integrated future food system approaches should move beyond single solutions and can only be solved by working in transdisciplinary settings of science, society, and industry.
Highlights
820 million people are undernourished, which equals to 11% of the global population [1].At the same time, following WHO numbers and definitions, 650 million people are obese and one-third of all produced food is wasted (e.g. [2])
This local context includes the social-economic setting in which these sustainable food systems need to function. This social-economic setting relates to the production function of farms, and to the institutional setting in which farms operate, as well as the non-production functions of farms. This means that a transition towards sustainable and healthy food systems requires a true inter and transdisciplinary effort from science, because knowledge systems will require input from both the natural sciences and the social sciences and can only link to local contexts with input from local stakeholders
Co-creating an enabling environment through government mechanisms andincentives, legal frameworks and regulatory instruments to promote production and consumption of healthy planet diets; Ensuring policy coherence by aligning policies across all sectors, from local to regional, national to international level, and discussing with all societal stakeholders [99]; Developing context-specific healthy planet diets taking into account social, cultural, economic, and ecological circumstances [99]; Engaging in transdisciplinary participatory design processes to develop systemic instruments, that is, a set of aligned interventions that collectively aim to tackle food sustainability challenges and that are likely to accelerate the transition to sustainable healthy diets
Summary
820 million people are undernourished, which equals to 11% of the global population [1]. For instance the major drivers affecting the global food system between current and 2050 in four different sets: (i) demand for food, (ii) trends in future supply, (iii) exogeneous factors affecting the food system, such as competition for resources, and (iv) interdisciplinary themes [2] With these interdisciplinary approaches, it indicates that a sustainable agriculture system should feed the world population while reducing climate change and stabilizing global land use. The EAT-Lancet Commission postulated a range of scientific targets and global strategies to achieve an environmentally sustainable production of healthy diets for the growing global population [4] They defined an evidence-based universal healthy reference diet of appropriate caloric intake that consists of a diversity of plant-based foods, low amount of animal source foods and unsaturated fats. Human population, and thereby contributes to reaching multiple Sustainable Development Goals
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