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Reversing the alarming trend of rising food insecurity requires transformations towards just, sustainable and healthy food systems with an explicit focus on the most vulnerable and fragile regions.
The food system is increasingly reliant on a multitude of data-driven technologies that connect global supply chains and underpin productivity, trade and security. Improved governance of data exchange — through a data trust framework — will drive sustainable business growth and secure wider public benefits.
Increasingly globalized food systems increase risk for the spread of infectious disease in animals and zoonotic transmission to humans. Greater international harmonization for measures and governance in the area of biosecurity for infectious disease is needed.
Aquaculture is set to undergo robust growth in the years ahead. We must look beyond the economic gains and strategize aquatic food systems to improve food and nutrition security and livelihoods for all, says the 2021 World Food Prize Laureate, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted.
Global interest and investment in food system transformation should be accompanied by critical analysis of its justice implications. Multiple forms of injustice, and the potential role that research might play in exacerbating these, are key considerations for those engaging with food system transformation and justice.