SUN Yemen - Issue 10 - Oct 2021
SUN Yemen - Issue 10 - Oct 2021
SUN Yemen - Issue 10 - Oct 2021
The Summit process aims to deliver the fol- These are the five Summit Action Tracks
The Action Tracks will draw on the expertise of actors from across the world’s food systems. Together, they will explore how key cross
-cutting levers of change such as human rights, finance, innovation, and the empowerment of women and young people can be
mobilized to meet the Summit’s objectives.
Action Track 1: Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all (FAO)
Action Track 1 will work to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition and reduce the incidence of
non-communicable disease, enabling all people to be nourished and healthy. This goal requires that all people at
all times have access to sufficient quantities of affordable and safe food products. Achieving the goal means
increasing the availability of nutritious food, making food more affordable and reducing inequities in access to
food.
Action Track 3: Boost nature-positive production (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
(UNCCD)
Action Track 3 will work to optimize environmental resource use in food production, processing and
distribution, thereby reducing biodiversity loss, pollution, water use, soil degradation and greenhouse gas
emissions. In its pursuit of this goal, the Action Track will aim to deepen understanding of the constraints and
opportunities facing smallholder farmers and small-scale enterprises along the food value chain. It will also
strive to support food system governance that realigns incentives to reduce food losses and other negative
environmental impacts.
Production
Environmental Wastage Socio-economic reactions
Reactions ( Greenhouse Gases) population change
Processing and
FOOD packaging
SYSTEM
Distribution /
Consumption
Retail
Food Security
Diets are influenced by all aspects of the food system, and Healthy diets are essential for nutrition and health. Poor diets
they affect nutrition and health. The World Health are one of the main risk factors for deaths globally. Unhealthy
Organization states that a healthy diet starts early in life and diets are a leading risk factor for disease and can lead to
includes a diversity of foods — starchy staples, legumes, undernutrition, which is associated with poor cognitive
fruits, vegetables, and foods from animals, like meat and development and increased susceptibility to infections. Diets
dairy. It balances the intake and expenditure of energy, and that lack essential nutrients may lead to micronutrient
limits salt, fat, added sugar, highly-processed foods, and sugar deficiencies. Children, women, and other nutritionally-
sweetened beverages. Throughout the world, people still do vulnerable populations are especially susceptible to poor
not have access to adequate calories or a diversity of healthy, health outcomes from these deficiencies. Diets that exceed
nutrient-rich foods. This lack of access results in hunger and recommended energy intake – especially diets that consist of
micronutrient deficiencies. Rising incomes have increased the unhealthy eating patterns – can lead to overweight, obesity,
availability and accessibility of nutrient-rich foods like fruits, and non- communicable diseases, like diabetes and cardiovas-
vegetables, and seafood. However, globalization and rising cular diseases. Diets high in sodium and low in whole grains,
incomes have also contributed to people eating more fruit, nuts, vegetables, and omega3-fatty acids contribute to an
unhealthy foods, like highly-processed foods and sugar increased risk of death. Food safety, antimicrobial resistance,
sweetened beverages. Researchers, policy makers, and con- and pesticide usage also affect the health of consumers and
sumers are also increasingly focused on the environmental people who work within the food system.
sustainability of diets. Diets and food systems have major im-
pacts on the use and degradation of land and water resources,
as well as on greenhouse gas emissions.
SUMMIT OUTCOMES
The UN Food Systems Summit launched bold new actions, solutions, and strategies to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of
which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable, and equitable food systems. The Summit will awaken the world to the
fact that we all must work together to transform the way the world produces, consumes, and thinks about food. To achieve this, the
entire process works towards the following outcomes:
Significant action and commitment to action, with measurable outcomes and impact that enable achievement of the
SDGs by 2030. This will include highlighting existing solutions and celebrating leaders in food systems transformation, as well as
calling for new actions worldwide by different actors, including countries, cities, companies, civil society, citizens, and food pro-
ducers.
Dramatically elevated public discourses at community, national, regional, and global levels about the urgency to
transform food systems, and that call and empower billions of citizens and youth among the broad public to take concrete
actions and to support the necessary individual and institutional behavioural shifts.
Significant Member State and multi-stakeholder action that enable measurable progress on the achievement of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Leadership in food systems transformation will be celebrated, and new actions
unlocked with the support of committed coalitions of partners and associated finance worldwide.
A system of follow-up and review actions to ensure that the Summit’s outcomes sustain momentum until 2030. It will
celebrate progress, identify and address bottlenecks on the basis of best available data and evidence, and allow for the sharing of
experiences and cross-fertilization.