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Food systems produce, market, store, trade, process, retail, and promote food for consumers to acquire and use to feed their families. Food systems also provide livelihood and income to large amounts of the population around the globe, including many of the world’s poorest. The latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s State of Food and Agriculture report, published in 2013, argues that “food systems - from agricultural inputs and production, through processing, marketing and retailing, to consumption - can promote more nutritious and sustainable diets for everyone” (p. 3). The report also highlights that while the nature and causes of food insecurity and malnutrition are complex and diverse, a common denominator for both conditions is a nutritionally deficient diet. For this reason, the food system provides an opportunity to address both food insecurity and malnutrition, but in order to do so, the food system needs to be re-shaped to be more nutrition-sensitive. The diagram below presents the framework adopted by FAO, which highlights opportunities for incorporating nutrition considerations into different elements of the food system. More specific guidance has also been developed on how to improve nutrition through agriculture programs and policies.

“Of course, addressing malnutrition requires interventions not only in the food system, but also in the health, sanitation, education and other sectors. Integrated actions are needed across the health, education and agriculture sectors”

FAO, 2013, p. 3