Advancing equity, equality and non-discrimination in food systems: Pathways to reform
(2018) United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition. News — Vol. NEWS, n° 43, p. 7-14 (2018)
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- 7E D I T O R I A L INTRODUCTION In the middle of the last century, malnutrition was still considered a challenge of production. High fertility rates and increasing life expectancies led demographic growth to peak in the mid-1960s. Rapid urbanisation led to an increase in consumer demand for highly processed foods rich in fats and salt and for year-round access to fresh produce. The significant gaps that persisted in food production in certain regions could be filled by an increase in output, it was believed. It was a time when agronomists were deemed to possess the cure for malnutrition. Increased agricultural productivity was not just one solution to the problem of hunger and poor diets, but the solution. The answer to hunger and malnutrition, it was thought, was to expand Green Revolution technologies:to mechanise production, to rely on external inputs and large-scale irrigation, to promote monocultures and the use of high-yielding varieties of wheat, maize and rice.
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De Schutter, O. (2018). Advancing equity, equality and non-discrimination in food systems: Pathways to reform. United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition. News, NEWS(43), 7-14. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/100597 (Original work published 2018)