Nutrition Council

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Nutrition Councils (ger .: food policy councils and food board ) are platforms that allow citizens to make nutrition policy at the local level. Spread around the world, they bring together consumers, local food supply actors such as farmers and other producers, stakeholder representatives, activists and representatives of local government to jointly influence the local food supply in a socially and environmentally sustainable way.

history

The world's first nutrition council was established in 1982 in Knoxville, United States. The first council was established in the UK in 2002, followed by the Netherlands in 2013.

In Brazil, the national nutrition council CONSEA ( Conselho de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional ) was founded in 1993, which went unnoticed for a long time, but was reinstated in 2003. Under the presidency of Lula da Silva , CONSEA and thus the involvement of civil society were able to implement the country's zero-form (zero-hunger) strategy as far as possible. So the country does not appear since 2014 more on Hunger Map of the FAO , and the implementation of various social programs, such as Bolsa Familia , led to a steady improvement in the fight against extreme poverty. A school meal program was also implemented across the country, which supplies schools with local, small-scale and healthy products. This not only supports smallholder agriculture, but also focuses on healthy eating within the school system. All of these achievements resulted primarily from the involvement of civil society in the context of CONSEA, which, through their advisory role, set many discussion processes in motion. Jair Bolsonaro dissolved CONSEA on the day he took office on January 1, 2019 .

In the meantime, the concept of nutrition councils is gaining ground around the world. This has also been the case in Germany for several years, although there are many smaller and locally functioning nutrition councils, for example in Berlin, Cologne and Freiburg.

aims

Depending on their composition and the local starting point, nutrition councils deal with:

  • promoting urban agriculture and agriculture based on solidarity
  • combating social disadvantage in the food system
  • the improvement of communal catering in schools or social institutions
  • strengthening relationships between townspeople and local producers

literature

  • Steven Engler, Oliver Stengel, Wilfried Bommert (eds.): Regional, innovative and healthy: Sustainable nutrition as part of the great transformation . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016, pp. 130–133
  • Kameshwari Pothukuchi, Jerome L. Kaufman: Placing the food system on the urban agenda: The role of municipal institutions in food systems planning . In: Agriculture and Human Values , June 1999, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 213-224

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Susanne Kost, Christina Kölking: Transitory urban landscapes: What agriculture does the city need? . Springer, Wiesbaden 2017, p. 52 f.
  2. ↑ Viktoria Wölfl: Brazil's food policy: two steps forward, three steps back. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Nutrition Council Brochure FIAN. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .