Africa: Diets Must Become Sustainable Say FAO and Bioversity

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Rome — Immediate action to promote sustainable diets and food biodiversity so as to improve the health of humans and of the planet is urged in a book just published by FAO and Bioversity International.

"Regardless of the many successes of agriculture in the last three decades, it is clear that food systems, and diets, are not sustainable," says Barbara Burlingame, Principal Officer of FAO's Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division, in a preface to the book, Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity.

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