School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, 22-30 Park Ave, Grafton, Auckland1023, New Zealand.
Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Public Health Nutr. 2022 Sep;25(9):2353-2357. doi: 10.1017/S1368980022001173. Epub 2022 May 16.
There is widespread agreement among experts that a fundamental reorientation of global, regional, national and local food systems is needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals Agenda and address the linked challenges of undernutrition, obesity and climate change described as the Global Syndemic. Recognising the urgency of this imperative, a wide range of global stakeholders - governments, civil society, academia, agri-food industry, business leaders and donors - convened at the September 2021 UN Food Systems Summit to coordinate numerous statements, commitments and declarations for action to transform food systems. As the dust settles, how will they be pieced together, how will governments and food corporations be held to account and by whom? New data, analytical methods and global coalitions have created an opportunity and a need for those working in food systems monitoring to scale up and connect their efforts in order to inform and strengthen accountability actions for food systems. To this end, we present - and encourage stakeholders to join or support - an Accountability Pact to catalyse an evidence-informed transformation of current food systems to promote human and ecological health and wellbeing, social equity and economic prosperity.
专家普遍认为，需要对全球、区域、国家和地方粮食系统进行根本性的调整，以实现联合国可持续发展目标议程，并应对营养不良、肥胖和气候变化这三重全球危机，这被称为全球大流行病。认识到这一紧迫性，政府、民间社会、学术界、农业食品行业、商业领袖和捐助者等广泛的全球利益攸关方于 2021 年 9 月齐聚联合国粮食系统峰会，协调了许多为改变粮食系统而采取行动的声明、承诺和宣言。随着尘埃落定，它们将如何组合在一起，政府和食品公司将如何接受问责，由谁来问责？新的数据、分析方法和全球联盟为那些从事粮食系统监测工作的人提供了一个机会和需要，以便扩大和连接他们的努力，为粮食系统的问责行动提供信息和支持。为此，我们提出并鼓励利益攸关方加入或支持一项问责协议，以促进当前粮食系统的循证转型，促进人类和生态健康和福祉、社会公平和经济繁荣。
