Where People & Planet meet…
(WHO) run Food & Nutrition programmes that address the "double
burden" of hunger and obesity (European Action Plan for Food
& Nutrition Policy '07 - '12).
“Fortunately, the strategies needed to create desired
changes in nutritional and environmental patterns are
often complementary and, as a whole, provide cost-
effective, sustainable development for agricultural
land....
In addition, local strategies that seek to improve the
availability of, access to and consumption of locally
produced foods, particularly fruits and vegetables,
also increase the interdependence and thus the social
cohesion between urban and rural dwellers“