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Thomas Duffy, Macra na Feirme president insisting that beef is not the new tobacco on a UN Food Systems Summit in the RDS.
An accusation that beef was the “new tobacco” of the world that caused health issues was flatly rejected by Macra na Feirme president Thomas Duffy.
Duffy was speaking in response to the statement made by Dr Colin Wage, an independent scholar of food systems and sustainability, during a United Nations Food Systems Summit held in the RDS on Tuesday 4 May.
“In reality we know that beef does have a very positive nutritional contribution and it’s a vital source of high-quality iron,” Duffy said.
New WHO benchmarks help countries reduce salt intake and save lives
New WHO benchmarks help countries reduce salt intake and save lives
May 04, 2021
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Most people consume double the WHO-recommended 5g of daily salt intake, putting themselves at greater risk of the heart diseases and strokes that kill an estimated 3 million people each year.
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a new set of global benchmarks for sodium levels in more than 60 food categories that will help countries reduce sodium contents in foods to improve diets and save lives.
“WHO Global Sodium Benchmarks for Different Food Categories” is a guide for countries and industry to reduce the sodium content in different categories of processed foods. Around the world, consumption of processed food is a rapidly increasing source of sodium.
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The UN Food Systems Summit (UN FSS) will be held in September 2021 and aims to launch bold actions to deliver progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems. However, Slow Food, together with the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) and many other organizations of civil society, has decided to decline any formal involvement in the Summit process because of a series of concerns around undue corporate influence, a missing human rights grounding and a lack of transparency in the process.
Despite positive and ongoing gains in economic development in many African countries, hunger is on the rise, impacting some 246 million people.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on the cracks in the continent’s food systems, already under strain from climate change, conflict and pests. Increased investments and expanded partnerships are urgently needed to promote Africa’s agricultural transformation through technology and innovation.
The African Development Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), in partnership with the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the CGIAR System Organization, will co-host a high-level dialogue: Feeding Africa: leadership to scale up successful innovations.
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