Linking Health with Agriculture, Food and Nutrition to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals in Eco-Friendly Fashion– Proceedings of AN EXPO 2023 BKUC

Iftikhar Alam,1 Attaullah Jan1, Wajid Ali Shah2, Rooh Ul Amin2, Rahamdada Khan2, Saad Jan2, Majid Rasheed2, Hamza Iftikhar2, Fatima Ejaz1, Ali Sher2, Hafsa Nawaz1, Aneela Tahmeed1, Kajal Sana2, Zarmeena Shah2, Sayed Saleem Shah2, Imtiaz Ali Shah3, Hira4, Fazal Majeed5, Abdul Sattar Shah6, Yaser Durani7 Asma Noushad2, Amina8, Tabassum Yaseen,9Badar Zaman10
1Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Department of Agriculture, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, KPK, Pakistan. 2Agronomy, Department of Agriculture, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, KPK, Pakistan. 3Nutrition International, Pakistan. 4Institute of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, KPK, Pakistan. 5DGHS, Nutrition, Peshawar, KPK, Pakistan. 6Halal Food Authority, KPK, Pakistan. 7Department of Food Technology, Agriculture University Peshawar, KPK, Pakistan. 8Department of Physics, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, KPK, Pakistan. 9Department of Botany, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, KPK, Pakistan. 10Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) Pakistan
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ABSTRACT
Without adequate and sustained investments in good nutrition, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will not be realized. The ambition to ‘End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture’ is captured in SDGs, however, at least 12 of the 17 Goals contain indicators that are highly relevant to nutrition. With this issue in focus, a one-day Ist Agriculture-Health-Nutrition conference and Expo, focused on ‘linking agriculture with health, food and nutrition in a sustainable way’ was held by Bacha Khan University Charsadda (BKUC) in collaboration with Nutrition International. The aim of the expo was to highlight the issues and challenges for Pakistan’s agriculture-health-nutrition linkages, and to propose plausible recommendations for national sustainability. The Expo-2023 BKUC highlighted the issues and solutions related to agriculture-health-nutrition linkages.
Keywords: Nutrition Expo, Sustainable Development Goals, Nutrition Linkages, Agriculture economics
Citation: Iftikhar Alam, et al., Linking Health with Agriculture, Food and Nutrition to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals in Eco-Friendly Fashion– Proceedings of AN EXPO 2023 BKUC. Canadian Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2023; 11 (2): 67-74.

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.14206/canad.j.clin.nutr.2023.02.06

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