Transformative Nutrition
Author : Yiska Obadia
Publisher : Redefining Diet
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2009-09-04
Category :
ISBN : 061532133X
Transformative Food Value Chains for Local Development
Author : Silke Maria Stöber
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 2832543669
Book Description
Understanding the capacity of food systems to undertake a transformation towards sustainability requires understanding how resources stream in and out of the systems. As complex socio-economic structures, food and agricultural value chains are important means for channeling resources, knowledge, and agency in and out of rural areas. Given their prominent role on the development agendas, there is mixed evidence as to what extent value chains and their actors can contribute to improving the livelihoods in poor rural and urban areas. In order to shape sustainable living places, transformative capacities and good governance are important mainstays. Transformative agri-food value chains are robust and often act as the sole transmission belt for returning capital, resources and identity back into vulnerable areas. Moreover, domestic or regional chains may provide urban consumers with fresh quality food that also contributes to regional identity.
Transformative Nutrition
Author : Michael Tamez
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2015-07-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781508539421
Book Description
This is the true story of a loser...who learned how to win. Obese and suffering from severe sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and advanced gum disease, author Michael Tamez was stuck in a bottomless pit of self-resentment. During his thirteen year journey toward radiant health, things plummeted to new depths when he lost five family members within eighteen months. Consequently, it was these impactful losses combined with being unhealthy and miserable that motivated him to start his health transformation. Not only did he reverse all of his adverse health conditions, but he also transformed the dysfunctional relationship he had to food, his lifestyle, and his higher self. Along his journey, Tamez discovered his life's purpose: to help as many people as possible who are dealing with similar health and weight loss issues. Michael's mission is to empower people to experience their highest level of vibrant health. Through his powerful guide, readers will discover how to effectively transform their dysfunctional relationships with food, people, and situations. In this groundbreaking and unique approach to healthy and balanced living, you will uncover the root of your obstacles and create a personalized health-and-wellness plan that fits your body's specific wants and needs. Cutting through today's nutrition fads and conflicting opinions, holistic health coach and author Michael Tamez shares how he reversed his severe sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and advanced gum disease while overcoming obesity. This invaluable guide will encourage you to listen to your body and discover your own answers. As inspiring as it is insightful, Transformative Nutrition is a guide to whole-body wellness that not only addresses weight loss and reversing physical illness, but also gets to the underlying cause of your mental and emotional attachments to those physical issues, as well. As one of the most progressive lifestyle and wellness books written, Transformative Nutrition will inspire a permanent shift in the way you eat, think, feel, and live. No matter how impossible it may seem; you deserve, and can achieve, a healthy and balanced life. Discover the simple, practical steps that will ensure you accomplish all your health goals. The Ultimate Guide to Healthy and Balanced Living presents a highly effective diet-free solution that will support you in re-creating yourself. Are you ready to live a healthy and balanced life?
Transformative Driving Forces in Organic Food Systems: A Roadmap toward the Sustainable Development Goals
Author : Sebastian Kretschmer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3737610371
Book Description
The organic food and farming movement has lately been portrayed as a food system in its own right since it contains all necessary sub-systems, consisting of food environments, distribution networks, processing, as well as production and supply, all of which are bounded by an organic guarantee system. This dissertation critically reviews the discourse on driving forces in food systems and argues that mindset is the primary predictor for food system outcomes. While “yield per hectare” and “go big or go out” narratives are still driving the food system’s overall trajectory, transformative worldviews are beginning to transcend the Dominant Social Paradigm. This dissertation wants to showcase how mindset qualities such as those found in organic food systems (OFS) and their resulting driving forces are converging with the trajectories of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other food system transformation agendas. The hypotheses that shall be valorized in this dissertation are the following: (1) Drivers in OFS convey narratives that appeal to the human need for self-determination, and transcendence, evoking sustainable happiness and personal responsibility; (2) OFS Drivers promote a paradigm shift that is conducive to achieving the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, and (3) OFS Drivers around the world display specific sustainability patterns, irrespective of geographical-climatic, political-economic, and socio-cultural conditions. Through integrated fi ndings from actor-centered mixedmethods grounded theory (MM-GT) research involving the documentation of eleven case territories, this work identifi ed a pattern of global mindset attributes that drives OFS actors toward holistic human and sustainable development.
African food systems transformation and the post-Malabo agenda
Author : Ulimwengu, John M.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Book Description
This year marks 20 years of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which was broadened under the 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods. The 2023 Annual Trends and Outlook Report generates evidence on the implementation of the CAADP/Malabo agenda and thus contributes to the design of the post-Malabo phase of CAADP implementation. The report assesses the current state of Africa's food systems, explores strategic issues related to food systems transformation, and reflects on necessary methodologies and approaches to provide a better understanding of key challenges and necessary actions to accelerate transformation.
Transdisciplinary Research for Understanding and Transforming Food Systems
Author : Alexandros Gasparatos
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 2832537677
Book Description
Food systems are currently facing tremendous challenges and changes globally. On the one hand, population growth, urbanization, and increased affluence are expected to catalyze dietary shifts and broader changes to food systems in the coming decades. On the other hand, food systems (and changes therein) have major environmental and social ramifications. As a result, fostering the sustainable transformation of food systems is seen as one of the major challenges for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, understanding food systems, and transforming them in a sustainable manner is far from straightforward, especially as our food systems have multiple intersecting economic, social, technological, and cultural dimensions. Moreover, food systems encompass different stakeholders operating at different levels with enormously different interests and worldviews.
A learning journey to the Kingdom of Tonga: Accelerating transformative change in nutrition-sensitive value chains in Pacific islands
Author : Sio-Ki-Sia Fonua, Finau
Publisher : CTA
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9290816562
Book Description
Pacific Island countries suffer from alarming rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and are consistently ranked as the most obese and diabetic in the world. At the centre of this NCD crisis is the underlying problem of consumption of processed imported foods; high in fat, salt and sugar, displacing nutritious local produce; crops and fish from the daily meals of Pacific people. In order to help address this problem, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), in collaboration with MORDI Tonga Trust, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO), organised three activities in the Kingdom of Tonga from 3 - 6 December 2018. The integrated four-day event was held under the theme Transforming Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chain Development in the Pacific Islands within the framework of the CTA/IFAD/PIPSO Innov4AgPacific project. The overall objective of which is to “Strengthen the capacity of Pacific Island countries to develop strategies and programmes that would increase accessibility of poor rural peoples to nutritious and healthy foods”.
Transforming Food Systems
Author : Molly D. Anderson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1040037143
Book Description
This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being. The book approaches food system transformation through narratives, or the stories we tell ourselves and others about how things work. Narratives are closely connected with theories of change, although food system actors frequently lack explicit theories of change. Using political economy and systems approaches to analyze food system transformation, the author focuses on how power in food systems manifests, and how this affects whom can obtain healthy and culturally appropriate food on a reliable basis. Among the narratives covered are agroecology, food sovereignty and technological innovation. The book draws on interviews and recorded speeches by a broad range of stakeholders, including international policymakers, philanthropists, academics and researchers, workers in the food and agricultural industries and activists working for NGOs and social movements. In doing so, it presents contrasting narratives and their implicit or explicit theories of change. This approach is vitally important as decisions made by policymakers over the next few years, based on competing narratives, will have a major influence on who will eat what, how food will be produced, and who will have a voice is shaping food systems. The overarching contribution of this book is to point toward the most promising pathways for achieving sustainable food systems and refute pathways that show little hope of achieving a more sustainable future. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers interested in creating a sustainable food system which will ensure a food secure, socially just and environmentally sustainable future.
Brief review of Ghana’s food system transformation pathways
Author : Asante, Felix A.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Book Description
Global estimates show over half a billion people go hungry (FAO, 2020) and close to 2 billion people are either obese or overweight with another 2 billion of the world’s population suffering from micronutrient deficiencies (Micha et al., 2020, Fresco et al., 2017). Inarguably, the world faces significant malnutrition problem (including micro- and macro-nutrient deficiencies, obesity, and diet related non-communicable diseases). This is evident in a recent analysis pointing out that effort in achieving the Global Nutrition Targets is likely to be missed. The observed malnutrition threat is accompanied by climate change, which is influencing food production and consumption trends, and thereby leading to undernutrition and affecting overall development. In addition, there are growing incomes, accelerated urbanization, and expanding middle classes which are also causing significant changes in consumer behaviour and nutritional choices, necessitating both public and private expenditures for better food market integration. As a result, there is a pressing need to examine our food systems to guarantee food and nutrition security and to advance sustainable development. It is likely that the COVID-19 impact may further exacerbates the worsening food insecurity and nutritional status of the most vulnerable groups including women, children and adolescents, refugees and displaced people, smallholders in rural areas, and the urban poor.
Transformation of Agri-Food Systems
Author : K. C. Bansal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Food supply
ISBN : 9819980143
Book Description
Zusammenfassung: This edited volume covers all major topics related to agri-food transformation towards sustainability in this era of climate change. The topics cover field crops, horticultural crops, livestock sector, nutritional aspects, application of latest field-based technologies, and agriculture related policies and institutions. Some of the key topics are: Innovations for Reconfiguring Food Systems; Transforming High-value Food Commodities; Demand-Supply of Agri-food Commodities; Balancing Human Demand and Ecological Sustainability; International Partnership for Transformation of Agri-Food Systems; Transforming Animal Health and Aquatic Food Systems for Food Security; Climate Resilient Agriculture; Addressing Nutritional Security through Natural Resource Management; Water Harvesting and Improving Water Productivity; Combating Micronutrient Deficiencies; Plant Genetic Resources for Food Security and Nutrition; Genome Editing for Crop Improvement; and Biosafety and Socioeconomic Considerations. Written by experts, this book serves in exchanging and sharing the latest research findings, ideas and experiences on all aspects of agri-food systems to enable the formulation of the ways forward to transform our agri-food system to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations by 2030. The target audience include academicians, researchers, students, farmers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and others
