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"Many experts agree that our food system is broken, leaving billions of people
either under or overfed as agricultural practices continue to contribute to
climate change. The past 15 months has helped magnify those fractures. Farmers
have been forced to dump and destroy the fresh goods they could no longer sell
as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic while food insecurity has escalated for
millions of people worldwide.
A group of agriculture and food policy academics based in several countries
believe it would be possible to repair the global food system by 2045 and have
released a new proposal mapping a way forward.
In 2016, this team of researchers started talking about ways to address the
problems food systems face, such as food insecurity, food waste and greenhouse
emissions resulting from the industrial food chain. They started brainstorming
a possible solution in earnest in 2019, and the resulting report, “A Long Food
Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045,” was published on March 30. It
details two diverging visions for future food systems. One imagines what it
would look like if (agri)business-as-usual continues. (Hint: It’s not pretty.)
The other considers a long-range approach that brings together farmers,
fishermen, cooperatives, unions, grassroots organizations and international
NGOs to shift the industrial food system into one that works for people and the
environment. Deemed the “Long Food Movement,” the project’s title is a play on
the well-known Slow Food movement, a grassroots organization founded in 1989
that emphasizes the importance of preserving a region’s unique cuisine, along
with the diversity of its food plants, seeds, domestic animals and indigenous
farming methods."
Via Muse, who wrote "We need to manage food better for a sustainable future."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
