Making better policies for food systems will require reducing evidence gaps

A Review of Evidence-Informed Policy Making in Sustainable Healthy Food and Nutrition Systems

Background and purpose: A safe food system provides the conditions for consumers to decide about and choose the food products. This systematic review describes the alternatives in order to achieve a healthy nutrition pattern in a food system that can be used to make changes in current policies. Materials and methods: An electronic literature search was done in Google Scholar, Web of Science, P...

Inexpensive, Clean, Reliable Energy Will Require Engineered Systems

While small emission reductions are easy, large reductions will demand engineered systems. Classical System Engineering (SE) development begins with ultimate goals such as big (>90%) reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The first SE phase, concept development, consists of system tradeoffs to clarify feasible concepts and focus development efforts. These system studies begin with simple conce...

DRAFT PAPER Fisheries Decision Making and Management Failure: Better Answers Require Better Questions

Many fisheries in North America are in crisis, creating ever more complex problems for managers. Management decisions are contested in court, changed via legislation, or merely ignored. As complexities multiply, accuracy of management predictions decrease. Managers need tools to examine complex fishery systems which include not only biological and economic concerns, but political, social and be...

Closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

Agriculture and food policies can promote better health and

The greatest challenge to health in the Region is the premature death and physical and mental disability resulting diseases as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer, and osteoporosis. Most of those diseases are aptly labeled now Diet-related Chronic Diseases (DCD) as they are associated to lack of physical activity and poor diets, including the consumption of foods ...