India, Feb. 1 -- Investing $500 billion per year could reduce diet-related mortality by 36%, save 174 million lives from premature deaths

Globally, current food systems cost significantly more than they contribute to development. A sustainable transformation of existing food systems is urgently required at an estimated total cost of $500 billion per year. This cost is equivalent to only 0.2-0.4 per cent of global GDP and is small relative to the multi-trillion dollar benefits it could bring, according to a new report.

The annual environmental cost of the current food systems was $3 trillion, and the additional costs to health was at least $11 trillion.

The socio-economic benefits of transforming food systems around the world are estima...