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      Prof. Joachim von Braun

      Center for Development Research, University of Bonn

      Genscheralle 3

      DE–53113 Bonn (Germany)

      E-Mail [email protected]

      3rd International Congress Hidden Hunger, March 20–22, 2017 in Hohenheim, Germany.

      1 Good Governance indicators include, for example, “Control of Corruption,” “Voice and Accountability” or “Political Stability and Absence of Violence,” taken from Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/worldwide-governance-indicators.

      2 For more details on the proposed panel see: von Braun and Kalkuhl [10] and von Braun and Birner [9].

      Biesalski HK, Birner R (eds): Hidden Hunger: Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality.

      World Rev Nutr Diet. Basel, Karger, 2018, vol 118, pp 10–16 (DOI: 10.1159/000484397)

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      Hanns-Christoph Eiden

      Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Bonn, Germany

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      Abstract

      Public partners play a key role when we want to improve nutrition quality. They will not succeed, when they try to achieve the goal alone or tend to dominate other players. In their responsibility for common interests it is up to public partners to moderate and facilitate the multi-stakeholder and multi-sectorial dialogue to improve nutrition quality. It is up to public partners to establish clear legal and structural guidelines aiming to bring all partners together, to avoid conflicts of interests and, above all, establish conditions, in which consumers are sufficiently informed about food and nutrition, so that they are motivated, empowered, and adequately protected to take their own responsible decisions.

      © 2018 S. Karger AG, Basel

      Introduction

      Moreover, at least 12 of the 17 goals also contain indicators that are highly relevant for nutrition. This leads me to my third remark. None of the different SDGs can be achieved by treating each goal separately. Aiming at improved nutrition, achieving nutrition security as well as nutrition quality urges us to consider a wide range of aspects – from diversified and sustainable agriculture to food systems that care for the transportation and processing of food while preserving its quality. We need to consider the availability of good food for consumers at affordable prices throughout the year. And, of course, we need to consider issues such as health, sanitation, education, environmental challenges, gender issues, cultural issues, and rights issues. Improved nutrition is a truly multi-sector issue.

      Nutrition Quality

      This means that the quality of our nutrition, whether our diet is healthy or not, whether “it is health promoting” or not, significantly depends on how we live, how we learn, what we know about ourselves and about nutrition, whether we are able and motivated to act in a way that is appropriate for us, and whether we develop a lifestyle which fits our needs and allows us to nourish ourselves accordingly.

      The Role of Public Partners

      It is a complex task. Therefore, you need partners to move forward. Before describing more concretely the role of public partners, let me discuss a bit more in detail, who the partners are and what talking about a multi-actor approach actually means. It does not mean that all the partners have to do everything together. The roadmap to success