Building sustainable diets; an introduction to food biodiversity
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in THIS course
Hannah Gentle has first hand experience with implementing food biodiveristy programmes. She explains about food biodiversity and how to implement strategies, tools and activities to help integrate food biodiversity into (national, regional and local level) policies, food systems, educational programmes, and daily diets.
By
the end of this presentation you will be able to:
Define
biodiversity
and food biodiversity
Describe
the current state and causes of global biodiversity loss and widespread malnutrition
Explain
how conserving and utilizing biodiversity can simultaneously improve
nutritional status, boost livelihoods, maintain environmental health, safeguard
traditional knowledge, and celebrate cultural diversity
Recall
how incorporating biodiverse foods into food systems, daily diets and
awareness-raising programmes has improved the vitamin A status of at risk
Melanesian populations
