Providing Healthy diets for all

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Our world is rapidly changing. Increasing food consumption by a growing population, together with changing dietary habits, pose an immense challenge for the global food system. A crucial question is how to meet the increasing demand for food and provide healthy diets for all for the decades to come without undermining the Earth’s resources and crossing planetary boundaries, beyond which the future prospects for humanity may be threatened, Food systems can have major environmental impacts. Food production may, for example, have impacts on land degradation, deforestation, loss of habitats and biodiversity, depletion of natural resources, and contamination of air, soil and waters. For example, food systems account for about one-fourth of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and agricultural production for 70% of global fresh water withdrawals. We should avoid The use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture, and the use of hormones in animal husbandry because it causes chemical pollution of marine and terrestrial ecosystems with contamination of food products and ecosystems that inturn may lead to severe health consequences. *preventive antibiotic use in animal husbandry contributes to antibiotic resistance. These practices will in combination with growing competition for land, water, and energy affects the capacity for future sustainable healthy food production. *Sustainable and healthy food for all can also be addressed by1. avoiding the transition to Unhealthy less sustainable diets, Reducing food waste by changing consumer behavior and using innovations and new technologies to reduce the environmental impact of healthy food production. 2. Reduction on the yield and nutritional quality of crops (in particular vegetable and fruits) due to climate change ;and trade off between food production and industrial crops. 3. There should be an urgent need in Developing and implementing policies and choices for a growing world population, whilst reducing the environmental foot print of the global food system

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