SINGAPORE, July 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — This World Population Day, Sophie’s Bionutrients (https://sophiesbionutrients.com/), a Singapore-based next-generation sustainable urban food production technology company, advocates for and promotes fair and sustainable food systems across the globe in the backdrop of a rapidly growing global population in a pandemic era.
COVID-19 may have exposed the fragility of our food systems, but the root cause has been years in the making.
According to the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Global Food Policy Report 2021, three billion people could not afford a healthy diet before COVID-19.
However, this number is estimated to rise by 267.6 million between 2020 and 2022 due to the disruptions in supply and lack of access to proper storage of fresh, healthy food and lowered disposable income brought about by the pandemic and lockdown measures.
This effect is particularly pronounced in low and middle-income countries. Due to the unaffordability and perishability of fresh, healthy food, many have turned to ultra-processed food high in sugar, salt and saturated fats as an alternative.
In what is termed a “nutrition transition”, the upsurge in low quality, nutrition-deficient diets is matched with a dramatic increase in nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and a ten-fold increase in obesity in four decades.
“Our current global food system is not fit for purpose. If the population is to grow at the rate…
