Efficient and effective nutrition policy needs a systematic focus on goals and instruments, with all potential instruments taken into consideration, excluding none for instance because of ideological bias.
3 Nutrition policy requires more attention, leadership, and funds, as well as a global organizational home, rather than spread across global/UN organizations.
4 The evidence base for nutrition policies must be strengthened by establishing a systematic science and policy interface, similar to what has evolved for the field of climate change with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Prof. Joachim von Braun
Center for Development Research, University of Bonn
Genscheralle 3
DE–53113 Bonn (Germany)
E-Mail [email protected]
3rd International Congress Hidden Hunger, March 20–22, 2017 in Hohenheim, Germany.
1 Good Governance indicators include, for example, “Control of Corruption,” “Voice and Accountability” or “Political Stability and Absence of Violence,” taken from Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/worldwide-governance-indicators.
2 For more details on the proposed panel see: von Braun and Kalkuhl [10] and von Braun and Birner [9].
Biesalski HK, Birner R (eds): Hidden Hunger: Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality.
World Rev Nutr Diet. Basel, Karger, 2018, vol 118, pp 10–16 (DOI: 10.1159/000484397)
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What Does it Need to Improve Nutrition Quality? The Role of Public Partners
Hanns-Christoph Eiden
Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Bonn, Germany
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Abstract
Public partners play a key role when we want to improve nutrition quality. They will not succeed, when they try to achieve the goal alone or tend to dominate other players. In their responsibility for common interests it is up to public partners to moderate and facilitate the multi-stakeholder and multi-sectorial dialogue to improve nutrition quality. It is up to public partners to establish clear legal and structural guidelines aiming to bring all partners together, to avoid conflicts of interests and, above all, establish conditions, in which consumers are sufficiently informed about food and nutrition, so that they are motivated, empowered, and adequately protected to take their own responsible decisions.
© 2018 S. Karger AG, Basel
Introduction
When preparing my presentation for this opening lecture, I thought about how to best embed it in the context of this congress. Let me start with 3 introductory remarks. First, you are attending the 3rd International Congress on Hidden Hunger. We gathered for the first time exactly 4 years ago, just a few kilometers away. While 4 years ago the headline was “From Assessment to Solutions!” today we are discussing strategies to improve nutrition quality and combat hidden hunger. We have made progress since then [1].
Second, therefore, with my second introductory remark, I would like to stress that we are talking about action, about the roadmap to success. With the adoption of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) [2], the world has defined this roadmap. Improved nutrition is explicitly mentioned in
