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Sustainable
food systems for food security and nutrition in Zimbabwe: Build
up to the World Food Day – 16 October 2013
Ministry
of Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food
Programme
October 08, 2013
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The
World Food Day
- The World
Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on the 16th
of October in honour of the date of the founding of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945.
- The day
is celebrated widely by many other organizations concerned with
food security, including the World Food Programme.
- The World
Food Day theme for 2013 is;
“Sustainable
Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition – Healthy People
depend on Healthy Food Systems"
Key
messages for the 2013 theme;
1.Good nutrition
depends on healthy diets.
2.Healthy diets
require healthy food systems – along with education, health,
sanitation and other factors.
3.Healthy Food
Systems are made possible by appropriate policies, incentives and
governance.
What
is a “Food System”?
- The term
"food system" is used frequently in discussions about
nutrition, food, health, community economic development and agriculture.
- A food system
includes all processes and infrastructure involved in feeding
a population: growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting,
marketing, consumption, and disposal of food and food-related
items. It also includes the inputs needed and outputs generated
at each of these steps.
- A food system
is made up of the environment, people, institutions and processes
by which agricultural products are produced, processed and brought
to consumers.
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