Hidden Hunger: Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality. Группа авторов

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different tasks and to attribute specific responsibilities to different partners. And at the same time – and this is the essence of a multi-actor approach – the roadmap to success asks us to create platforms which encourage dialogue and stimulate innovative energies that derive from this exchange among different actors at equal levels.

      The actors are manifold. Among them are producers, processors, and trading companies acting individually or as a group, each of them looking at the issue from their point of view and following their own interests. There are consumers, too, also acting either as individuals or as a group. There are scientists from different academic sectors. And there are extension and field services, teachers, social and medical services.

      All these actors must be committed to a continued, coherent, and sustainable action on local, regional, country, and/or global level. Of course, public partners are also involved as well as states, regions and their administrations, supranational and international organizations. However, they are not just another part of this big puzzle of actors involved. Their task is different. It is up to them to lay down the basic legal rules, aiming at a level playing field for the fruitful cooperation of all actors.

      It is up to countries and regions to establish the rules to comply with and which solve conflicts of interest, establish standards for cooperation and conduct, ensure the transparency of processes, as well as equal treatment and representation and look for the appropriate discussion of the various different aspects. It is up to the public partners to stimulate and moderate the trans-sectorial and multi-disciplinary action to improve the nutritional standard of people in a given area.

      This does not mean that the public partners should dominate the process in a top-down manner. Public partners will never be suited to do so, as they will never know better and already ex ante what needs to be done. Public partners need input from other actors. They need to understand and they need to get the large picture, empowering them to play this stimulating, moderating, and facilitating role with the necessary authority.

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      Furthermore, the Centre supports the Scientific Committee on the Composition of Foodstuffs in its task to ensure transparent consumer information, and it deals with the reduction of food losses along the value chain from the farm up to the final consumer. Communication is the Centre’s second pillar. Extensive information about nutritional issues and influence on the environment where people eat and make food choices will help empower consumers to make the appropriate choice about nutrition and to make the healthy choice the easy choice.


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