Bolstering Healthy Food Systems

Prioritizing Healthy Food System Research

Food systems have a significant impact on human health, the environment and the economy and are both impacted and affected by climate change. In a healthy food system, food processors, producers, distributors and retailers have the information and technologies needed to produce nutritious, environmentally sustainable and culturally appropriate food for consumers.

Our Healthy Food System Priority Area research develops scientific solutions to these challenges. Our research takes a systems-level approach to:

• promote the availability of nutritious, quality foods to diverse populations;
• bolster human health and nutrition outcomes;
• improve food safety;
• reduce loss and waste;
• develop novel processes and products;
• increase understanding of social and cultural dimensions of food security and nutrition, and;
• advance the overall functionality of the food system.