Themes
Food systems and diets underpin many critical challenges to public health and environmental sustainability, including malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and climate change, but healthy diets have the unique potential to reshape the future for both human and planetary well-being. Drawing on recent evidence and experience, the 2024 Global Food Policy Report highlights opportunities for transforming food systems to ensure sustainable healthy diets for all.
Advancing Nutrition
Leveraging food systems for nutrition requires a shift toward sustainable healthy diets that promote well-being for both people and the planet
Diets and Nutrition
Anchoring sustainable healthy diets as a key outcome of food systems transformation helps prioritize diets as a critical way to tackle all forms of malnutrition
Demand-Side Approaches
Understanding the drivers of individual food choices, consumer behavior, and food demand is essential to reshaping food systems
Diet Affordability
Shifting toward sustainable healthy diets will require bridging the gap between the current food budgets of the world’s poor and the high cost of nutritious foods
Food Environments
Food environments warrant attention to better understand how they affect diets and to develop policy actions that promote sustainable healthy diets
Plant-Source Foods
Plant-source foods deliver energy and important nutrients, but policies and investments are needed to improve production and consumption of these foods, especially among vulnerable populations
Animal-Source Foods
Incorporating animal-source foods into sustainable healthy diets will require shifting consumption patterns around the world to benefit human health and planetary well-being
Improved Governance
Sound governance is essential for policy interventions that help improve diet quality and nutrition