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Interview with Columbia’s Jessica Fanzo, Professor, Global Nutritionist and Sustainable Development Specialist
Full text linkJessica Fanzo, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute and a Professor of nutrition and sustainable development at Columbia University’s Medical Center and School of International and Public Affairs. She has formerly worked with UN Reach, Bioversity International, World Bank and on various large-scale applied research projects for various UN agencies
Changing diets: The Asia Pacific perspective
No full textJessica Fanzo IFPRI-FAO conference, "Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition" November 28–30, 2018 Bangkok, Thailan
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Cooperate to prevent food-system failure
Full text linkJessica Fanzo says that food systems must evolve and governments must work together if people are to be kept nourished during a global pandemic
The Food System & Nutrition: Bringing it Together
No full textJessica Fanzo POLICY SEMINAR Climate resilience, sustainable food systems, and healthy diets: Can we have it all? OCT 31, 2017 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM ED
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The Committee on World Food Security Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition: A blueprint for priority action
Full text link‘Globally, our diets are killing us, Jessica Fanzo has reported in the event on Food systems and Nutrition. Diets are now the top risk factor of disease, disability and death. It is also showed in the presentation by Jessica Fanzo that ‘Global diets are less sustainable depending on what the food is, where it is grown, and how it is grown. Some foods, such as beef and other large ruminants have a higher impact on the planet in terms of GHGe, land and water use and forest and biodiversity loss. But other non-animal foods can have different environmental footprints depending on how they are grown. Regardless, our diets are overall becoming less sustainable as the world demands more animals source foods with wealth accumulation’
Food Systems Dashboard: Shaping Decisions on Food Systems Through Data
No full textJessica Fanzo POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - Information Needs for Food Crisis Risk Early Warning: The Role of the Food Security Portal Co-Organized by IFPRI and the Food Security Portal (FSP) NOV 24, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM ES
Food Systems Dashboard: How it will work
No full textJessica Fanzo and Lawrence Haddad POLICY SEMINAR Food Systems Dashboard: How it will work Co-Organized by IFPRI, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) JAN 27, 2020 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM ES
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A food systems perspective on food and nutrition security in Australia, Indonesia, and Vanuatu
No full textAchieving food and nutrition security for all people remains one of the defining challenges for humanity in the 21st century. Although progress has been achieved in many areas, notably in reducing absolute hunger, other forms of malnutrition are worsening, for example, micronutrient deficiency, and the overweight and obesity epidemic. In light of persistent and worsening malnutrition status in many countries, new approaches are called for. One such possibility is the food systems approach. The food systems framework explicitly links drivers, activities, and outcomes of the food system. The framework is useful for critiquing existing food systems, exposing important but often overlooked linkages, and identifying promising points of intervention. It is a valuable tool for bringing together the wide diversity of food system actors to develop mutual understanding and ideally a shared vision for future food systems with improved outcomes. This chapter describes the food systems approach and illustrates its application through three contrasting case studies from Australia, Indonesia, and Vanuatu, representing a Pacific Island nation. In Australia the focus is on the overweight and obesity epidemic, with a particular focus on the public health and environmental outcomes from sugar production and consumption. Indonesia represents a major emerging economy and the focus here is on undernutrition, and in particular the problem of childhood stunting, an indicator of severe maternal and child malnutrition. Vanuatu provides another unique set of geographical and cultural conditions. Here the focus is on the triple burden of malnutrition that has arisen from the interplay between climate change and globalization of the food supply. In each case study the causes and mechanisms of malnutrition are complex and often contested. Much existing government and private sector research and development already address the various forms of malnutrition, and our purpose is not to diminish this existing work. And yet, the problem persists despite these significant efforts. The food systems approach can complement existing work, adding value, and improving the effectiveness of existing programs. In many cases governments have already designed interventions using food system principles, but in all cases, there is potential to go deeper into developing and implementing more systemic interventions. Food and nutrition security is a basic human right enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals. The three case studies presented here represent only the first steps of what needs to be an ongoing prioritization of food systems research and development, progressing alongside more traditional approaches to food and nutrition security. The huge costs of malnutrition, and the environmental impacts of food system activities, more than justify a modest investment in food systems research and development. Finally, from an ethical perspective, if there is the possibility of restoring the basic dignity of food and nutrition security to those currently malnourished, we have a moral obligation to do so
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