Securing Health through Food Systems: An Initiative of the Nutrition Consortium of the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan and Asia Pacific Regional Partners as a Network

由糧食體系確保健康：倡議臺灣國衛院的營養聯盟小組與亞太地區伙伴建構互助網絡

Mark L Wahlqvist ； Ken N Kuo

《Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition》 18卷4期 (2009/12) Pp. 472-479

https://doi.org/10.6133/apjcn.2009.18.4.01

摘要

隨著氣候變遷導致生態系統崩解以及溫室效應、非再生能源的受限、糧食生產地帶水資源的短缺、現代農業依賴有限可耗盡的石化氮和磷礦肥，以及全球金融體制的潰敗，這些對人類健康上的衝擊，已被投注越來越多的關注。今日所謂「衛生安全」意指對環境安全的注意，特別是水、環境衛生、下水道及廢棄物的處置，也包括醫療照護的可近性及負擔力。因為目前和近期風險的增加，以及此風險將延伸影響更多的族群，加上這些風險的不易處理及健康上營養相關的性質、廣度和變動開始被重視，顯示一直以來低估了衛生安全對糧食安全的依賴（在安全性、足量性、永續性以及需求多樣化和高品質的滿意度上）。國家衛生研究院因此成立由學界組成的營養聯盟小組，發展針對這些議題深入研究及衛生政策建言的議程，並於2009年8月2日至5日與世界蔬菜中心共同舉辦「亞太地區糧食、食品與健康安全國際研討會暨專家會議（FIHS）」，由國家科學委員會、中央研究院、以及澳洲Australian Academy of Technological, Sciences & Engineering（ATSE）協同贊助。會中倡議建置的FIHS網絡，將對更廣泛的人類安全議題有所貢獻。

關鍵字

糧食危機 ； 營養相關的失調和疾病 ； 能源 ； 水 ； 肥料 ； 自然及人為的災變

並列摘要

There are growing concerns about the health impacts of climate change with ecosystem degradation and global warming, finite reserves of non-renewable energy, water shortages in food-producing regions, limits to contemporary agriculture with its dependence on exhaustible petrochemical nitrogen and rock phosphate fertilizers, and failure of the global financial system. To date, health security has meant attention to safe environments especially water, sanitation and waste disposal; and access to health care and its affordability. Its dependency on food security (safety, sufficiency, sustainability, and satisfactoriness which requires diversity and quality) has been under-estimated because the current and imminent risks have increased and extended to more populations, because these may be less tractable and because the nature, extent and dynamics of nutritionally-related health are better appreciated. As a step towards more collaborative food and health systems, the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan has created an interdisciplinary Nutrition Consortium (NC) with research and policy agendas. The NC held a food in Health Security (FIHS) in the Asia Pacific region roundtable in conjunction with the World Vegetable Center based in Tainan, supported by the National Science Council and Academia Sinica in Taiwan and the Australian Academies of Science and of Science Technology and Engineering, August 2-5th 2009 in Taiwan. A FIHS Network is being established to further the initiative. It should form part of the broader Human Security agenda.

並列關鍵字

food crisis ； NRD (Nutritionally-Related Disorder and Disease) ； energy ； water ； fertilizer ； natural and anthropogenic disaster