THE Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 defines "food systems" as the whole range of activities that "include the related resources, the inputs, production, transport, processing and manufacturing industries, retailing, and consumption of food as well as its impacts on environment, health and society." The definition goes beyond the traditional "farm to fork" (production to consumption) concept but extends to cover nutrition, sustainability of food production (environment including climate change and the provision of sustainable livelihood to food producers) and the governance (institutions) of the food systems.
A recent publication of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), based in Paris, France, assessed how 54 developed and developing economies in the world responded to the challenges facing the food systems, particularly during the Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic year of 2020. Its chapter 22 was specifically devoted to analyzing the Philippine agricultural sector's performance.
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