Steep Rise in Private Sector Support 'Vital' to Food Sustainability, Urges WBCSD

Stockholm (ots/PRNewswire) -

A significant increase in support from the private sector is vital
to address challenges around world nutrition and sustainable food
production, delegates at the EAT conference
(http://www.eatforum.org/) in Stockholm will hear today.

Progress is being made, and many global companies have embraced
food sustainability programs, but much more is needed, Alison Cairns,
Managing Director, Food Solutions, at the World Business Council for
Sustainable Development (WBCSD) will tell the conference.

"Almost all the world's food comes from private sources, including
many very small companies and producers. We all need to do much more
to address the big issues to accelerate sustainably produced food,"
Ms Cairns said. "This requires a positive spirit of cross-sector
collaboration, and a readiness for all parties in the sector to work
together."

"The past focus on food productivity alone is giving way to
concerns over better nutrition, diet and health for people around the
world, and also to more sustainable ways of producing food which
truly values our natural resources," Ms Cairns added. "Another
priority is reducing waste. If food waste were a country, it would
emit more CO2 than anywhere else outside the US and China."

"Our role at WBCSD is to make it easier for business to act, by
working with the science community to provide a bed-rock of science
based targets, and to develop methodologies, programs on the ground
for impact and relationships with the wider global community of food
activists."

WBCSD partners EAT on an initiative for Food Reform for
Sustainability and Health' (FReSH
(http://www.wbcsd.org/Projects/FReSH)) launched in January. It has 35
members - including three companies in Scandinavia and ten new
members announced today.

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