Our entire food system needs a redesign to cope with increasing threats to resilience over the long haul.
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Ottawa’s $3-billion National Food Security Strategy funds greenhouses, food terminals and processing plants, but not the advisors who help farmers put any of it to work.
A resilient food system requires connecting affordability, trade, food safety, biosecurity, regional infrastructure and preparedness before the next disruption.
Solutions for food systems exist; scaling them is where the challenge lies.
Public investment in food retail, distribution and wholesale infrastructure could add urgently needed diversity to Canada’s food landscape.
AI tools for farming can play a role. But they need to be properly tailored for African and developing nations’ context.
Emerging technologies such as lab-based meat could produce the same quality and quantity of protein on hundreds of times less land.
The expansion of global food supply chains can reduce food security, while improving regional food systems can improve food security.
The focus on price stability is making the food supply less resilient to shocks.
Foods saved from the waste heap by verifiable supply chains are said to be upcycled.
Faced with both a trade war and annexation threats, Canada must confront whether its domestic food systems can feed its population in a crisis.
Ensuring food security for the future means supporting food producers and building the infrastructure and policies that make local food accessible, affordable and sustainable for all.
Cover landfills and manure tanks and shrink dairy herds, for a start.
A transition from animal proteins to more plant products could help with the food crisis while offering farmers a more sustainable income.
Establishing a nationwide system of community restaurants could help tackle the current food and farming crisis.
Farmers’ markets provide a host of benefits to both consumers and farmers, but are often overlooked when it comes to creating policies geared toward improving the sustainability of food systems.
Fruit flies wreak havoc on crops in Hawaii, but a type of parasitoid wasp armed with a biological weapon has helped keep the pests at bay.
Local food systems are often hailed as being more sustainable than global food systems, but are these systems truly any better?
A big price is already being paid by the environment and society.
In the face of growing social and environmental challenges, organizations in the food and agriculture sector are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration.
Top contributors
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Professor of International Relations and International Development, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex
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Professor in Sustainable Production and Consumption, Anglia Ruskin University
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Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University
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Food Systems Research and Partnerships, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher and PhD candidate at PLAAS, University of the Western Cape
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Honorary Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Bath
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Professor, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
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Research Professional, Université Laval
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Associate Professor, Department of Environment, Agriculture, and Geography, Bishop's University
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Senior Nutritional Epidemiologist, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Strategy and Sustainability, University of The Fraser Valley
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Professor, Sociology, University of Windsor
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Researcher in Conservation Decision Science and Land Use, University of Oxford