Food and Nutrition Security: Collaboration FACCE-JPI, JPI Oceans and JPI HDHL

Knowledge Hub Food and Nutrition Security
Ensuring Food and Nutrition Security is a complex issue, requiring an integrated food systems perspective. Food and Nutrition Security bridges a number of Societal Challenges; it encompasses the entire food system (land and sea) from farm to fork. FACCE-JPI, JPI HDHL and JPI Oceans have identified different aspects of this challenge and are now coming together to coordinate efforts in this area and have published a paper that describes the scope of the proposed joint research programme.

It is well known that the health, environmental, economic, and societal costs will be substantial if we do not change our course of action when it comes to the food system and the underlying challenge of Food and Nutrition Security. Coordination is needed to bring together different research domains and national and international research investments and to ensure involvement of key actors (consumers, primary producers, industry etc.) to stimulate innovation and implementation. Strong stakeholder involvement in JPIs will facilitate knowledge flow from research towards practice. The coordination between FACCE-JPI, JPI Oceans and JPI HDHL aims to define a research programme to address the challenge of Food and Nutrition Security.

The research is expected to contribute to the implementation of the European Commission’s FOOD 2030 initiative, but also to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, by connecting research communities along the entire food value chain to propose adapted, acceptable and sustainable solutions to achieving food and nutrition security. It will promote the building of lasting transdisciplinary coordination across a range of fields. The research to be undertaken will help to provide solutions for providing sustainable and resilient food systems for nutritious food from land and sea to feed an ever-changing world. Click here to read the paper FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY INTEGRATIVE FOOD SYSTEM APPROACH which has been adopted by the governing boards of FACCE-JPI, JPI Oceans and JPI HDHL.

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Nutrition