Here is a selection of titles proposed by FAO Publications for forum participants who would like to read more on sustainable food systems.
Food systems for an urbanizing world
This report presents a narrative stressing the centrality of food to the future of cities, countries and the planet, and to jobs, human health, food security and climate change, and proposes the TRANSFORM framework to develop food-smart cities.
Integrating food into urban planning
Through an array of successful examples, spanning from the Tsukji market in Tokyo to urban agriculture in Lima, this paper shows that a systemic approach to integrating food into urban planning is crucial to increase food security and nutrition.
Plates, pyramids, planet
This report evaluates government-issued food guidelines from across the globe, looking in particular at whether they make links to environmental sustainability in addition to promoting good eating habits.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2017: Leveraging food systems for inclusive rural transformation
This year’s report looks at rural and urban areas not as separate domains but as a continuum ranging
from the farm level to megacities, and emphasizes the dynamic roles that rural towns and secondary cities play as intermediaries in boosting the rural economy.
Nutrition and food systems: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition – September 2017
This report looks at the links between access to food and people’s nutritional status. It calls for policies that promote adequate food access for all and strengthen consumers’ information on healthy products.
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems in practice: Options for interventions
This publication provides a list of food system-based interventions (e.g. biofortification, price policies, labelling and education) to improve nutrition across four key functions of the food system: production; storage and processing; trade and marketing; and food preparation.
Building a common vision for sustainable food and agriculture
This report builds on FAO’s extensive experience in developing sustainability concepts, approaches and tools.
Further reading
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