World Food Policy Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2015 | Page 121

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empowered; hunger and all forms of
of national food systems, combined
malnutrition ended, and full access to
with the commercial and economic
food ensured; inclusiveness in decision
development imperative to produce
making on sustainable agriculture, food
cheap, nutritionally inferior food,
security, and nutrition; food systems
contributes to both diet-related
which are sustainable, diverse and
health risks and agro-environmental
resilient, less wasteful, restore soil fertility,
degradation;
and halt land degradation; and trade 5. an approach to feeding the world
policies reshaped and food price volatility
equitably will require major changes
mitigated.
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at all levels of governance and a
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organizations
and
programmes
(Kickbusch 2010, 25).

V - Summary

The persistence of food insecurity,
coupled with the growth in diversity of *References for this article are accessible
for ms of food insecurity, is being driven at the following link: http://www.ipsonet.
by multiple forces from both within the org/images/WFP/Dixon_References.pdf
food system and from outside the food
system. Food security, now and into the
future, will be advanced by establishing
health promoting food systems which are
built on the twin pillars of nutrition and
bio-sensitive food systems, and human
development and security systems.

These propositions follow from
the evidence presented in earlier sections,
that:
1. the right to [nutritious] food
advances the right to health, and is
a fundamental input to national and
human development;
2. access to nutritious food is a key
dimension of human security, while
human security underpins nutrition
security;
3. environmentally
unsustainable
food production will deny future
generations access to sufficient
nutritious food;
4. the hybrid and fragmented oversight
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