Sentences with phrase «food systems reform»

I can't write a post about major food systems reform without addressing access to not just fair food, but all food.

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Which brings me to the deeper reason you will need not simply to address food prices but to make the reform of the entire food system one of the highest priorities of your administration: unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change.

We also call on the Victorian government to work with stakeholders across the food system to understand the need for regulatory reform and explore options for the most suitable and effective way this can be achieved.

During 2014 - 16, he has been an active member of the High Level Committee set up by the government (NDA - II) to restructure the food management system in the country (known as Shanta Kumar Panel); member of the Task Force set up by the Prime Minister under NITI on Agriculture Sector Reforms; and also Chairing a Committee for Agri - Marketing Reforms in the country.

The challenge is to broaden the scope of policy debates beyond food supply chains and urban agriculture, to include strategic plans and reforms to tackle food systems.

A system where kids do not get full nutritional benefits because food companies pressure the US Congress to pass nutritional reforms based on the interests of their own business and not that of real nutritional science.

Now that my kids are no longer in the public school system, a few people have asked whether I'll continue to write and advocate about school food reform.

Rebel MPs are not opposed to the principle of reforming the welfare system but are worried about its roll - out: claimants are having to wait up to six weeks for their benefits, leaving many unable to buy food and pushed into debt and rent arrears.

When Gordon Brown became prime minister, he wanted to initiate fundamental reforms to the UK food system, so in 2008 he commissioned a report.

He began his talk, Reforming the Food Systems: Making the Transition Succeed, by painting a bleak picture.

The inertia is large, however, and beyond the habits of existing school - lunch systems is the classic problem of any school - based effort to reform the larger society — junk food that can not be obtained in school can be brought from home or purchased nearby.

During that time, he helped push for innovative and high performing schools introduced healthy food for students and worked to reform the state's school finance system.

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A joint program between EAT and WBCSD, Food Reform for Sustainability and Health (FReSH) is designed to accelerate transformational change in global food systems, to reach healthy, enjoyable diets for all, that are produced responsibly within planetary boundarFood Reform for Sustainability and Health (FReSH) is designed to accelerate transformational change in global food systems, to reach healthy, enjoyable diets for all, that are produced responsibly within planetary boundarfood systems, to reach healthy, enjoyable diets for all, that are produced responsibly within planetary boundaries.

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The Guardian: The existing food system has failed and needs urgent reform, according to a UN expert who argues there should be a greater emphasis on local food production and an overhaul of trade policies that have led to overproduction in rich countries while obliging poor countries — which are often dependent on agriculture — to [continue reading...]

Considering the two main channels through which the drought and food crisis affects welfare in Kenya, the document identifies four broad policy changes that can reduce Kenya's future vulnerability to such shocks: (i) investment in people in the arid and semiarid lands; (ii) reform of Kenya's maize policy; (iii) review of the East African Community grain trade policy; and (iv) formulation of a unified social protection system.

Fast food restaurants face tough restrictions on ability to bring in temporary foreign workers under reforms announced to address public outcry over perceived abuses of system, Reuters

His interests lie in the application of social and political theory to contemporary policy problems, with a focus on food politics, policy, and system reform.