ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book highlights that there are indeed many opportunities with which to create the type and scale of transformation that is needed within the current food system. The opportunity and imperative therefore are to influence the changes in ways that ensure healthy and sustainable food systems emerge as a consequence. A number of common themes emerged across the chapters despite the individual chapters focusing on specific aspects of healthy and sustainable food systems. The global nutrition and health community can build on the social actions and learn salient lessons from other cases of policy changes that have resulted in the effective and safe tackling of other public health challenges such as access to medicines and tobacco control. Understanding how to foster that political empowerment will require ongoing engagement between sectors, disciplines and literatures including political science.
