Policies for encouraging healthier food choices

Food assistance programmes in OECD countries are described in the OECD report Food insecurity and food assistance programmes across OECD countries: Overcoming evidence gaps (Giner and Placzek, 2022[44])This report was approved and declassified by the Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets in March 2023 and was prepared for publication by the OECD Secretariat. This report, as well as any data and any map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

Section: Be Proactive About Investing In Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

Overcoming evidence gaps on food systems

2023

“…The results are limited to one or two elements of the triple challenge; e.g. environment and health (see, for example, Geibel, Freund and Banse (2021 [16]) and Esnouf, Russel and Bricas (2013 [17]). Although further analysis of the triple challenge at the national level would help to assess synergies and trade-offs resulting from dietary changes, this would require additional investment in developping disaggregated indicators.…”

Section: Indicators Of the Triple Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite these shortcomings, the indicators presented in this report capture broad global trends and illustrate some of the synergies and trade-offs. They provide a quantitative angle for multi-dimensional approaches to estimate interlinkages and trade-offs between food choices, agricultural systems, economic, environmental and public health objectives that have been identified as important in analysing the effects of dietary changes (Geibel, Freund and Banse, 2021 [16]) (Auestad and Fulgoni, 2015[19]).…”

Section: Indicators Of the Triple Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other non-agriculture land use 15 will increase by 1.1%, mostly due to increasing urbanisation. Overall, global agricultural land use changes are influenced by anthropogenic activities 16 and is projected to fall by 0.2% in the baseline (Table 3). Source: OECD analysis using the Aglink-Cosimo model.…”

Section: Figure 8 Intensity Of Emission By Commodity Global Average 2020mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Potential impact of dietary changes on the triple challenge facing food systems

2022

A shift towards healthier diets is expected to address the challenge of providing food security and nutrition for a growing global population. This report explores whether such a shift would also have positive effects on the other two challenges food systems face: supporting livelihoods for those working along the food supply chain and contributing to environmental sustainability. The report finds that aligning diets with World Health Organisation guidelines on sugar and fat consumption would have the expected positive effect on nutrition and food security, and would also positively affect environmental sustainability. The effect on livelihoods along the food value chain, however, would overall be negative. The magnitude of the tradeoffs and synergies are greater when fat consumption is reduced, as opposed to sugar consumption, because actual consumption levels of fat are further away from WHO recommendations.

“…In the context of an increasing number of individuals accessing health and nutrition advice from sources such as social media influencers, countries must ensure the availability of clear and unambiguous government-approved guidelines (Pilgrim and Bohnet-Joschko, 2019 [23]). They may also need to consider committing to media literacy campaigns regarding online content (Funke and Flamini, 2020 [24]).…”

Section: Tailored Digital Applications and Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital opportunities for demand-side policies to improve consumer health and the sustainability of food systems

Baragwanath¹

2021

The report was declassified by the OECD Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets meeting in November 2020 and was prepared for publication by the OECD Secretariat. This report, as well as any data and any map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.