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FAO: More scientific research is needed to assure healthy diets for people worldwide
11.06.2019 16:32 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of this week, an international symposium The Future of Food (Jun 1011) is held within Rome, FAO reports.
It is to be admitted, the symposium is aimed mainly to discuss the global problem of an unprecedented rise of obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases, also in low- and middle-income countries.
As to the report, while speaking within the symposium, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva stressed the key role played by academic and research institutions within helping governments to introduce policy reforms aimed at ensuring that all people have access to healthy diets and can make informed choices on nutritious food.
«I would like once more to emphasize that FAO is a knowledge institution. We dont do research, so we depend on you, on academia we base our work on what you do. More and more, we would like to strengthen our partnership to do things together and to ensure mutual cooperation,» Graziano da Silva said.
He underscored the need for a growth of the scientific evidence to inform the policies and actions taken by governments to combat malnutrition in all its forms.
It is to be admitted, the FAO Chief remarks came on the first day of the symposium, which included a roundtable with representatives of academia, and also the signing by FAO of partnership agreements with seven universities and research institutions.
These included the American University of Beirut, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Future Food Institute, the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED), Johns Hopkins University, the University of Nottingham, and University of the Philippines Los Baños. Within the symposium, memorandums of Understanding between FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva and academia partners were signed.
It is to be noted, the new partnerships are aimed at, among other activities, the creation of joint research programs and studies on topics such as food safety, access to healthy food, and diet-related non-communicable diseases, which stem from malnutrition. The partnerships would also promote policy dialogue and enhance information and knowledge exchange in areas which include food security and nutrition, sustainable management of natural resources, and the urban food agenda.
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