Innovations in the Food System

<p>Innovations in Food Systems should be:</p><p>Inclusive: ensuring economic and social inclusion for all food system actors especially smallholders women and youth;</p><p>Sustainable: minimizing negative environmental impacts conserving scarce natural resources and strengthening resiliency against future shocks;</p><p>Efficient: producing adequate quantities of food for global needs while minimizing postharvest loss and consumer waste;</p><p>Nutritious and healthy: enabling the consumption of a diverse range of healthy nutritious and safe foods.</p><p> </p><p>These are ambitious goals that will require multidisciplinary effort-from engineering to life sciences biotechnology medical sciences social sciences and economic sciences.</p><p>New technologies and scientific discoveries are the solutions to the increasing demand for sufficient safe healthy and sustainable foods influenced by the increased public awareness of their importance.</p>