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Figure 3: Food Systems

Source: The World Food Safety Committee (2017)
A sustainable food system will bring promoting healthy diets, improving nutrition
many benefits to individuals, society and and realizing other common goals of the food
the environment, such as providing safe and system. A sustainable food system ensures
nutritious food and creating opportunities food safety, food security and nutrition for
for many links in the food supply chain from present and future generations following
farmers to retailers and wholesalers while sustainable development’s three dimensions
contributing to the conservation of the natural (economic, social and environmental).
environment and biodiversity. Sustainable Sustainable food systems must be inclusive,
food systems have an essential role in equitable and restorable.

Food system elements (HLPE, 2017) are:
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• The food supply chain consists of the activities and actors that take food from
production to consumption and to the disposal of its waste. The steps of the
food supply chain include production; storage and distribution; processing and
packaging; retail and markets.
• The food environment refers to the physical, economic, political and socio-cultural
context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions
about acquiring, preparing and consuming food.
• The consumer behaviour reflects all the choices and decisions made by consumers,
at the household or individual level, on what food to acquire, store, prepare, cook
and eat, and on the allocation of food within the household

10 High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE). (2017). Nutrition and Food Systems: A report by The High
Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Commitee of World Food Security, Rome.

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