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Time to push for a sustainable food system, say scientists
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- EAT-Lancet Commission releases report on healthy diet says, “the way we are producing food today is causing increased emission of greenhouse gases, depleting fresh water supply, compromising land use, exhausting the nitrogen and phosphorous cycle, and endangering biodiversity”.
- The EAT-Lancet Commission’s report, for the first time proposes scientific targets for what constitutes a healthy diet derived from a sustainable food system.
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- International panel:(1) The report, authored by 37 international experts, including two from India, has been put together by EAT, the science-based global platform for food system transformation, and the journal The Lancet.(2) With 1.35 billion people, that is, 1 out of 6 people globally here in India, India would soon surpass China to become the most populated nation in the world.(3) Feeding all our people a healthy diet in a sustainable manner without compromising on our ecology and environment is going to be the most important challenge.
- People’s movements:(1) key steps required for the ‘great food transformation.(2) Taxes on unhealthy foods, subsidies for healthier food options, strong leadership in the public and private sectors and strong civil society movements, is the need of the hour.(3) As food systems become more formal and organised, food safety threats increase, not decrease.
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The hindu.