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SPOTLIGHT on Sustainable Development 2018: Exploring New Policy Pathways

SPOTLIGHT on Sustainable Development 2018: Exploring New Policy Pathways

The Spotlight Report on Sustainable Development 2018 includes a chapter on the links between food, health and the environment that calls for new priorities and approaches to make food systems sustainable. Elaborating the notion of a food-health-environment nexus, IPES-FOOD argues that a range of health risks in food systems are deeply entwined with climate change and degradation, while climate change itself is aggravating health impacts and affects food security and agricultural practices, which in turn contribute to climate change.

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