Desautels Faculty of Management.
McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MMCHE), McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2014 Dec;1331:1-14. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12602.
The causes of many vexing challenges facing 21st-century society are at the nexus of systems involved in agriculture, health and wealth production, consumption, and distribution. Using food as a test bed, and on the basis of emerging roadmaps that set achievable objectives over a 1- to 3-year horizon, we introduce this special feature with convergence thinking and practice at its core. Specifically, we discuss academic papers structured around four themes: (1) evidence for a need for convergence and underlying mechanisms at the individual and societal levels; (2) strategy for mainstreaming convergence as a driver of business engagement and innovation; (3) convergence in policy and governance; (4) convergence in metrics and methods. Academic papers under each theme are accompanied by a roadmap paper reporting on the current status of concrete transformative convergence-building projects associated with that theme. We believe that the insights provided by these papers have the potential to enable all actors throughout society to singly and collectively work to build supply and demand for nutritious food, in both traditional and modern food systems, while placing the burdens of malnutrition and ill health on their core strategic agendas.
许多困扰 21 世纪社会的挑战的根源都处于农业、健康和财富生产、消费和分配所涉及的系统的交汇处。我们以食物作为试验台，并基于设定了 1-3 年目标的新兴路线图，以融合思维和实践为核心，引入了这一特别专题。具体而言，我们讨论了围绕以下四个主题组织的学术论文：(1) 个人和社会层面需要融合以及潜在机制的证据；(2) 将融合作为推动企业参与和创新的驱动力的策略；(3) 政策和治理方面的融合；(4) 指标和方法方面的融合。每个主题下的学术论文都附有一份路线图论文，报告与该主题相关的具体变革性融合建设项目的现状。我们相信，这些论文提供的见解有可能使社会各界的所有行为者能够单独和集体努力，在传统和现代粮食系统中，对营养食品的供需进行建设，同时将营养不良和健康不良的负担置于其核心战略议程上。
