How Can Agriculture and Food System Policies Improve Nutrition?

The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, an independent group of influential experts, released its inaugural technical brief, mapping a wide range of policies that affect agriculture and food systems’ influence on nutrition. Centered around a food environment capable of providing diet quality—described as diversity, adequacy and safety—the authors detail policies influencing agricultural production, markets and trade systems, consumer purchasing power and food transformation/consumer demand.