The right to an adequate diet: the agriculture-food-health nexus 2012, para. 44
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- As noted by WHO, local food systems to improve urban consumers' access to fresh and nutritious foods, particularly fruits and vegetables, has a key role to play in making a shift towards healthier diets (A/66/83, para. 60). This begins by improving the links between local farmers and the urban consumers, although urban and peri-urban agriculture can also make a significant contribution. The urban and rural agendas both can gain by rebuilding local food systems that provide healthy and sustainable diets at affordable prices for consumers. Such diets also can be more easily achieved by shorter supply chains, because such chains are not controlled by large retailers or food processing companies and do not have to depend on national policies that respond to broader economic interests. In addition, shorter food chains can improve access to markets and incomes for small-scale local farmers, both in low-income and higher-income countries. They encourage the enhancement of agrobiodiversity because local food crops can expand, rather than being crowded out by homogenized commodities for the global markets. And they reduce the dependency of food systems on the considerable amounts of energy required for the packaging, processing and transport of food.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/19/59, para. 44.
- Paragraph number
- 44
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