Sustainable food labelling: considerations for policy-makers

The Visual Policy Making Life-Cycle: Supporting Policy Makers with Visual-Interactive ICT Tools for Sustainable Policy Making

The main goal of today’s humanity is to balance their environmental, economic, and societal needs for obtaining a sustainable future for later generations.The main actors that are enabled by the public to maintain a sustainable plan for this goal are politicians. The underlying process can be entitled as policy making process. Due to the fast growth of ICT during the last decades, new methodolo...

Achieving Sustainable Food Security for All: Required Policy Action

With business as usual, neither the World Food Summit Goal nor the 2020 Vision will be achieved. The lecture identifies the key driving forces that will influence the prospects for sustainable food security in coming years and proposes a set of high priority policy actions. Both the World Food Summit Goal and the 2020 Vision can be achieved but only if appropriate policies are followed within a...

Rebuilding community: considerations for policy makers in the wake of the 2011 Queensland floods.

In2011,Queenslandwas inundatedby theworstfloodsince1974. Over 70 communities were affected by flood waters, 75% of the State was declared a natural disaster area, lives were lost and thousands of homes were destroyed. As a formal Commission of Inquiry gets underway, and these events resonate through the media, we are reminded of the emergency needs of individuals, families and communities aroun...

Considerations on the food fortification policy in Brazil

Government health authorities approved, in December 2002, the ANVISA (National Sanitary Vigilance Agency) resolution number 344, making the addition of iron and folic acid to all wheat and maize flours industrialized in Brazil obligatory. After a brief review of iron deficiency, iron overload and folic acid deficiency several questions and remarks need to be made about this universal food forti...

Transgenics for productive and sustainable agriculture: Some considerations for the development of a policy framework