In Brazil, research community and policy-makers discuss how research can be repositioned to focus on food systems that support high-quality diets

On May 3, 2017 at the Embrapa HQ, Brasilia, the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, in partnership with Embrapa, has organised a high-level event that brings together the research community and policy-makers to identify policies and actions of agricultural research to improve diet quality, nutrition and health outcomes in Brazil.

The event was hosted by Panel Member and Embrapa president Mauricio Antônio Lopes with Panel Member Emmy Simmons, and it will be attended by representatives from Government, prominent academics and stakeholders from business and civil society.

It aimed to raise the food systems and nutrition agenda within the Brazilian agricultural research community, highlighting the research recommendations made by the Global Panel in the recent Nature paper, and to establish Embrapa in the UN Decade of Action on nutrition.

Panel member Emmy Simmons re-emphasises that “#Foodsystems need to be repositioned from feeding people to nourishing people” #foodsystems pic.twitter.com/UTgSIMojox

— Global Panel (@Glo_PAN) May 3, 2017

LEARN MORE

• Follow the event via Twitter on @Glo_PAN 
• Read the original article on Glopan’s website.
• Read the press release.
• Check out the opinion piece from Panel Member Mauricio Lopes: “From food security to diet quality: the new response to Brazil’s agriculture demands”.

UPCOMING

On May 10,  The Global Panel will  launch  a policy brief on food environments in Nigeria, which will coincide with the launch of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s Agricultural Sector Food and Nutrition Strategy 2016-2025.