Equitable and stable access to foods and beverages that are adequate, nutritious, and safe and meet dietary needs and preferences of communities will promote community well-being, prevent and even treat disease. This is essential for the prosperity and posterity of communities.

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Food security, with a balanced nutrition profile, especially amongst low income communities, is still largely an elusive reality, arising from mainly food production challenges, which is further compounded by climate change, farm to plate delivery channels and above all, consumer purchasing power challenges.

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It is therefore imperative that interventions for sustainable food systems should address the entire food value chain system, right from environmental degradation, biodiversity conservation, ecological use of aquatic and terrestrial food production systems, value addition, food delivery channels, food markets, and probably more importantly, improved household incomes for the increased propensity to afford adequate, nutritious, and safe food.

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Investing in, and supporting causes that promote sustainable food systems offers benefits of economic growth, improved health outcomes, increased social stability, poverty reduction, agricultural research and enhanced agriculture labor markets, among others.

On the other hand, sustainable food systems are closely related to sustainable energy systems, since the two in many ways tend to complement each other. It is for that very reason that SELLMARK has sustainable food systems as its second area of focus.

The two areas of focus are delivered through various mechanisms, thigh key to all that is through building partnerships for sustainable Energy and Food systems.

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