Uruguay Roadmap

Uruguay establishes a roadmap for the transformation of food systems within 10 years in the framework of the national implementation of the 2030 Agenda, based on the joint effort of the Ministries of Public Health, Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Environment and Foreign Affairs. The country highlights structures, strategies and plans, such as: the National Climate Change Response System, the National Committee to reduce food waste, the National Climate Change Policy, land use and management plans and the National Gender Plan for agricultural policies. The roadmap presented by Uruguay is developed on the basis of three thematic axes: 1 - Health, nutrition and well-being, with the incorporation of the law on healthy eating and food labeling, among others. 2 - Food systems, through the development of public policies that promote permanence in the rural world, capacity building, new technologies and investments, digitalisation of agriculture, support for agro-ecological practices and the promotion of gastronomic routes for products with identity, among others. 3 - Environmental protection and sustainable production, through proposals such as the development of the livestock environmental footprint or the decoupling of economic growth from the intensity of natural resource use.