Control table for food system unite on one place existing data from public and private sources, so that it could be provided with valuable information for users in identification their food system and what type of decisions to make.
Since the global opinion is that our food system is not sustainable, identifying the path for their change and improvement is difficult. Food systems are complex and have many various entrances to change. Still, even so that the measures can be identified, they lack in public acceptance and policy sustainability. However, its been point out that policy currents can be modified or combined in ways to increase their acceptance, so that sad the ways of managing policy strategies are as that important for policy efficiency and application. Creators of this strategies, non-governmental organizations, leaders of civile population and others, don’t have currently holistic tools to enable visualization of their own food systems, understand international relations between various sectors, also the resources to compare systems of other countries, to identify key challenges and determinate the priorities between actions.
This deficiencies of available information significantly interfere with the adoption of policies for improvement of food systems based on facts. Giving the amount of complexity and relation characteristically for food system data that describe this systems and their relationships with nutrition, should be unite in easy an understandable way. Visualization of data is potentially very important way for easy understanding, reaching the decisions and advocating for new policies.
Control table for food system is valuable resource for the community, and its opinion that has ability to provide the creators of policies understanding of their own national food systems and the challenges that are put in front of them, to decide about the priorities and actions for the improvement of nutrition in service of health. In that order we need to seek and ask for more information from those in metric and data world about food systems, more partners, and in the end to include more people/users that can make intake in this research and can provide us with the much needed information, also that can use this resource.
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