
By Yusuf Abubakar Idogu
Sustainable food systems are a significant segment of a planetary wellbeing technique to diminish the danger of Infectious diseases, limit ecological footprint and advance nourishment.
Human population patterns and dietary transitions have prompted developing interest for food, expanding creation and utilization of meat, in the midst of declining accessibility to arable land and water.
The intensification of livestock production poses genuine natural and health impacts.
A planetary health perspective recognizes that the health of human populations is tied to Earth’s natural systems and biodiversity. Climate change influences the production, distribution and nutrient content of food. At the same time, agricultural production systems have important impacts on the environment and public health.
For instance, Land clearing has implications for the natural environment, disrupting habitats and contributing to species extinctions. Importantly, livestock production, including animal life cycle, land clearing for grazing and value chain for animal source foods, is a massive contributor to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate change, in turn, impacts pollinators, plant diseases, water availability, soil erosion, rainfall and temperature, with serious consequences for agricultural production and food security.
Despite the fact that, overhauling worldwide food framework is difficult and it is also difficult to give a comprehensive rundown of explicit activities or strategy, Here are some of the things we can do as Youths to protect ourselves and the planet.
We can Promote a more sustainable food choices that will conserve and restore biodiversity and a more sustainable use of nature.
Everyone have a right to be better informed about the ecological impacts of food choices so they can make decisions to support food produced within planetary boundaries. This means choosing food that can conserve natural ecosystem, reduce loss of biodiversity and decarbonizes the food value chain from production till it gets to the final consumers.
The Youths can assume a vital role in driving a social movements to assist with advancing more sound and maintainable food decisions and decrease food waste.
Enhance usage of farmland globally through more reasonable food creation.
This would require a paradigm shift toward a more reasonable food creation including spatially circulating cropland to develop the right harvests in the ideal spots, embracing more manageable practices for soil, water, and supplements, and rebalancing nitrogen and phosphorus compost use.
Embrace healthy and more sustainable food choices that embody the rich and vibrant diets and traditions globally. Youths can prevail on stakeholders to create coherent, public health, agricultural, and food policies so that healthy good is accessible and affordable to all people and enable or enforce legislation of other policies to ensure the guidelines are followed.
Finally, as we strive to reboot the economy after the impact of COVID-19 through enormous boost bundles, we have a phenomenal chance to upgrade the world food System with the goal to decrease the dangers and probability of future occurrence and it’s effect on human wellbeing and the global economy.

