Food systems

Abstract

Food system meets all the elements (environment, people, inputs, processes, infrastructures, institutions, etc.) and activities that relate to the production, processing, distribution, preparation and consumption of food and the output of these activities, including socio-economic and environmental outcomes. Current food systems have dramatic effects on human and planetary health and, if current trends continue, the current development process will not “self-correct” this problem neither in the short nor even in the medium term.