Transforming food systems to support healthy people and a healthy planet is fundamental to long-term sustainability, including mitigating climate and biodiversity catastrophes while equitably nourishing a growing global population. Coaxing and driving food systems in a more sustainable direction will require countless interventions– most often simultaneously. While all food system stakeholders have important roles to play in this transition, food and agriculture companies – those that touch nearly all the food produced and consumed in the world – are critical to growing and manufacturing foods that nourish people and regenerate the planet. They also must use the power of their brands and marketing prowess to encourage people to choose the most nutritious and sustainable options.
WBCSD的 粮食和农业路线图 serves as the implementation plan for the CEO Guide to 食物 System Transformation. 关于 健康和可持续饮食 highlights the urgent need to help consumers choose and access healthy and sustainable food. One key action area focuses on shaping consumer awareness and demand for healthy and sustainable food options through effective labeling and providing information about food products to consumers in an accessible and clear way.
Since we published the 健康和可持续饮食 chapter, the breadth and diversity of food labeling systems has multiplied around the world. With over 500 labels linked to the environment and nutrition on the market today, the proliferation of labeling has raised questions regarding how to navigate this landscape and what types of principles to consider moving forward to support the pragmatic and impactful application of labels for companies and consumers alike.
作为第一步, FReSH members have identified the need to better understand when and how labels are most effective in supporting consumer behavior change towards healthy and sustainable diets, as well as the fundamental challenges associated with their implementation.
这份报告 "食物 Labeling: Principles to support the uptake of healthy and sustainable diets" includes a high-level assessment of existing nutrition and environmental impact labels, with a focus on the recent proliferation of scoring labels (e.g., 交通灯系统), as well as the evidence to date on the factors that affect the efficacy and uptake of food labels. We propose a set of globally relevant principles that the agri-food industry believes should underpin effective nutrition and environmental impact labels (front-of-pack, 菜单上, 和多渠道)的食物, with the ultimate goals of supporting consumer choice and industrial innovation to lessen the impacts of food on health and the environment. 以联合国(UN)为基础 Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information, we have tailored these principles to be relevant and applicable to the agri-food sector. These principles will feed into and inform ongoing discussions related to health and environmental impact labeling held by governments, 联合国机构, 公民社会, the private sector and other stakeholders of the UN 食物 Systems Summit. The goal of this work is to help relevant stakeholders advance this topic collaboratively through the 2021 UN 食物 Systems Summit and beyond.
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