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2. Overview
• Global Challenges
• Food and Health Nexus
• Agricultural Focus
– LGUs
– USDA, NIFA, ARS

3. Societal Challenges
• Population
• Food
• Water
• Environment
• Climate Change
• Energy
• Health
• Poverty
• Population
aka Wicked Problems

4. • Health
Food safety, nutrition, obesity, type II diabetes, cardiovascular
disease, dementia, stroke, cancer, hunger, poverty, families/children
• Ecological Footprint
Water/land use, natural resource and environmental stewardship,
greenhouse gas, global climate change, depleted soils
• Agricultural Competitiveness
Improve crop and animal agriculture; enhance farm productivity and
income; policies; supply chain; storage; transportation
• Bioeconomy
Replacements for petroleum-based products and enhance
community economic well being
21st Century Food System Challenges

5. The Nexus

6. Nexus Between Food and Health
• Two ends of the health spectrum
 Excess food and food insecurity
 Billions dilemma
• Preventable
 CDC: 75 percent of healthcare
spending for chronic diseases
• Health challenges
 Chronic diseases
 Food insecurity/hunger
 Food safety
 Environmental

7. • Food security and measurable
improvements in health
 Nutritious and safe food
 Community efforts to fight hunger and
food insecurity
 Strategies to combat childhood obesity
• Are food systems able to deliver
optimal health?

8. Land-Grant University Focus
• A new compact ~ Crowd source
 Academia, government, private sector, NGOs
 Outreach networks through the Cooperative
Extension System, Education, Health Sectors
o eXtension and online tools – democratizing knowledge
• Food and health research and education
Bio- and physical sciences
Relevance of environmental and social sciences
Quality science to inform policy

9. • Health outcomes driving genetics & breeding
Wheat, Soy, Maize, Milo, Rice, Tomatoes, Berries
Animal traits
• Altering the gut microbiome
• Alteration of food structure
Processing
oRetain natural and fresh attributes
oMatrices that modulate caloric content
oEnhance benefits of bioactive compounds
Healthy foods and quality
Food Systems and Optimal Health

10. Tomatoes = Lycopene
Cancer Prevention
Basic Science
(Genetics)
Applied Science
(Production & Processing)
Commercialization
Clinical Trials
Food Security, Production, Human Health

11. Goal: deliver 60 mg of isoflavone in 2 slices of bread.
40% Soy
Bread
30% Soy
Bread
20% Soy
Bread
Soy-Almond
(SAB)
Roast SAB Ferment SAB Steam SAB
Dr. Yael Vodovotz
Dr. Greg Lesinski
Impact of soy bread on Myeloid Derived Suppressor
Cell (MDSC) biology in patients with solid tumors
Development of Soy Bread

12. • FAIR 2012: One Health—Understanding
and improving animal health, human
health, ecological health
• Complex, multi-dimensional
 Biology, genetics, socio-economic status,
culture, and behavior – e.g., Latino children
• ‘Omics and personalized medicine
• Exercise and active lifestyles
• Access – Children’s health, food deserts
Food Systems and Optimal Health

13. • Dairy products and health
 Bone health, blood pressure, probiotics
• Pulse Heath Initiative – Prevention of obesity
• Cornell/ARS: Maize with high iron availability
• Foodborne diseases and food safety
 Dan Luo: DNA-based nanobarcode to track bacteria in the
food system to detect pathogens and toxins on site
 Craig Altier: Define Salmonella genes and genetic
pathways essential for survival, proliferation in tomatoes
• Functional genomics: Dual use research
 Biomedical applications
 Improve quality, nutritional characteristics, shelf life, and
food safety

14. NIFA Focus
• Discovery through Delivery Continuum
 DiscoveryTranslationInnovationSolution
• Capacity/Formula Programs
 Hatch, Evans-Allen, Smith-Lever, 1890s
Extension, FRTEP, 1994 Capacity, Insular Areas
 4-H, EFNEP, SNAP-ED
• The Pipeline
 Next generation scientists, Extension specialists
and educators, producers, better informed public

15. Competitive Programs
AFRI
• Challenge Areas
 Food Security
 Nutrition and Childhood Obesity
 Food safety
 Climate Change
 Bioenergy
• Fellowships
 Pre- and post-doctoral

16. • Foundational Areas
Plant Health and Production and Plant Products
Animal Health and Production and Animal
Products
Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health
Renewable Energy, Natural Resources, and
Environment
Agriculture Systems and Technology
Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities

17. Mandatory Programs
• Specialty Crops Research Initiative
• Biomass Research and Development Initiative
• Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
Development Initiative
• Organic Agriculture Research and Extension
Initiative

18. • Food Safety
 Improving safety of the nation’s food
supply through the support of basic
research and integrated science
programs
• Nutrition and Childhood Obesity
 NCCOR—National Collaborative on
Childhood Obesity Research—Public-
Private collaboration (NIH, CDC, and
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Programs Focused on Health

19. • USDA school breakfast
and lunch programs
 Long term impacts – health
and societal
Programs Focused on Access/Hunger
• Address hunger and food
security
 Community Foods Projects
• Increase food production
and access
 Local and regional food
systems
 Food deserts
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20. The Education Pipeline

21. Enhancing Healthy and Active Lifestyles
SNAP-ED

22. Food and Health Foci
• Promote high priority research/outreach in food
quality, safety, and access in relation to health
• Ensure food is nutritious and safe
• Promote strategies to combat childhood obesity
• Work with local communities to fight hunger and
food insecurity
• Food and Health literacy

23. Food and Health Foci
• Research, Education, and Extension
 Sustainable food production
 Environmental, Economic, Social
 Healthier, sustainable foods
 Access
 Chronic diseases, foodborne illnesses
 Nexus between biology, culture, behavior
 Policy research
 Education

24. A systems framework: food & nutrition security

25. Questions
• How impact food insecurity?
• How improve traits?
• Clinical validation?
• How increase consumption
of fruit, vegetables?
• Long term impacts?
• MyLifestyle, MyBehavior?
• Resurrect HomeEc courses?