Three billion people globally cannot afford a healthy diet as stated by the 2021 United Nation Food System Summit. The economic effect of COVID has significantly impacted food pricing patterns while also influencing population behaviors around accessibility, affordability, purchase and investment of different types of food.

The trends and prospects of global poly-crisis, particularly the Ukrainian-Russian crisis, and the war in the Middle East call for a different approach to food and nutrition systems. This session will engage the audience in an invigorating dialogue on how rising global fuel, food and fertilizer prices affected local and global markets, consumers, and farmers alike. It will address global food supply and demand issues, import/export price patterns, and market/consumer behaviors around food.

Serious impacts of global shocks on poverty, equity, hunger, and diet are compelling populations to adopt different behavior patterns around payment and investment for healthy foods, adoption and and consumption of cheap ultra processed foods that impose critical risks on health and nutrition outcomes with rising trends in hidden hunger and malnutrition. The session depicts scenarios for what should we be prepared for next at national and global levels, and how will this impact nutrition and dietetics practice in reality.

Planned with the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group