The Reprehensive of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation visited CBCGDF and Exchanged on Sustainable Diet with Zhou Jingfeng and the CBCGDF Good Food Fund
2019/7/2 10:56:00 本站

On the afternoon of 25th June, Ms. Gao Ying, head of the food project of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (AMF), visited China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), and exchanged with Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, the Secretary-General of CBCGDF, and Mr. Jianyi, the director of the CBCGDF Good Food Fund, on how to promote healthy diet in China, and the direction of cooperation in the future.

 

The Elan MacArthur Foundation is headquartered in the United Kingdom, was established in 2010 as a public welfare institution committed to accelerating the transition to the circular economy. It has launched innovative projects such as the New Plastic Economic Plan and the Circular Economy 100 (CE100). As a public welfare organization in the preliminary understanding of the food field, Ms. Gao Ying believes that food is an important initiative related to global systemic change. AMF hopes to promote the change of the global food value chain. In 2018, AMF with partners released a report to promote healthy and sustainable food consumption from the concept of a circular economy. The basic research phase has been completed. In the next phase, AMF will launch a three-years mobilization phase, which will mobilize food manufacturers, designers, non-governmental organizations and scholars to work together to play a role in the food value chain through collaboration in their respective fields.

 

As a Chinese leading public welfare organization, the CBCGDF has been at the forefront of promoting a healthy and sustainable diet. In the just-finished EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2019, Zhou Jinfeng, secretary-general of CBCGDF, was invited to attend to the forum and discussed the food change and sustainable diet development with experts, also suggested to Ms. Cristiana P. Palmer, executive secretary of the "convention on biological diversity", that a biodiversity-friendly diet should be brought to the Fifteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) in 2020. Secretary general Zhou Jinfeng's idea is highly appreciated by Dr. Cristiana Pasca-Palmer.

 

The two sides intend to cooperate from China's domestic diet research, promotion of good food standards and food education and other aspects. Mr. Jian Yi believes that China currently lacks a food research report on its own situation, and it is urgent to carry out local food research as a support point to promote the production of high-quality food and products while protecting natural ecological resources. The CBCGDF Good Food Fund launched the “Good Food Initiative” in Beijing on 24th June, and eight specific measures were launched and called on public welfare organizations and all parts of society to pay attention to the impact of human food problems on the whole ecological civilization, and advocated doing bit by bit. The CBCGDF hope to the research of this interdisciplinary to improve "unhealthy" food problems and eating habits.

 

In August, the CBCGDF Good Food Fund will hold its annual summit in Suzhou, China, at that time, CBCGDF will publish the Eat-Lancet Report with a panel of experts. Dr. Zhou and Mr. Jian Yi also hope to release a report that can fully reflect China's dietary issues, to establish a complete discourse system, and take the opportunity to discuss with domestic and foreign experts and scholars how to base on the field of food to promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other high-level issues.


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By / Zheng Nanyu