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South Africa’s food system is dominated by big firms, leaving small businesses to supply localised and under-served markets, and provide rural employment. It needs to be inclusive and diverse.
It’s time to redesign food systems that deliver healthy foods, allow farming families to make a good living, and support thriving societies.
There’s growing interest in making the US food system more resilient and flexible, but soil – the origin of nearly everything we eat – is often left out of the picture.
Small-scale dairy farmers are struggling across the US – but in New Jersey they’ve developed a model that keeps their products and their customers local.
Using innovative technologies like Bitcoin and automation can help protect our food supply chains from disruptions like the one caused by the current coronavirus pandemic.
The potential exists for malnutrition to exacerbate the health consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic.
We all need to eat. Experts imagine how the next agricultural revolution can feed us while fighting climate change and habitat destruction, instead of accelerating it.
Our food, finance, and logistics systems are worringly vulnerable to climate shocks – we can’t rule out collapses within a decade.
The fact that relative food prices differ so markedly and so systematically provides a very strong rationale for nutrition-focused food policies.
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Foraging is a crucial part of many diets and should not be discouraged.
If the food movement’s goal is to reclaim a corporatised food system by ‘rebuilding the public sphere from the ground up’, what does this look like?
Many will switch to less healthy diets as imported food becomes more expensive, says new research.
Food systems must be transformed to produce more nutritious food with a lower environmental footprint.
Foraging and gathering food can play a huge role in feeding people.
Multiple reports have convincingly demonstrated that agroecology is the most promising pathway to sustainable food systems on all continents. But governments aren’t doing enough to support it.
Global food system issues can be traced to colonial history. It’s time food production became more sustainable so that it meets the needs of people - equally.
Food insecurity is not only a cause of bad food choices, it is a result of the economics and geographies of the food system.
As a foodie, but also a vegetarian, I am always seeking alternative food systems that are healthy, farmer-friendly, community-focused, and easy to use —attributes that also make food systems sustainable…
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, Sustainable Food Systems, Dalhousie University
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Research Associate in Plant Biology, University of Cambridge
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President, Food Secure Canada
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Common Ground Canada Network, Dalhousie University
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Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor in the Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Co-director; Bureau of Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP), Stellenbosch University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia
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Professor and Dean of The Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University
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Professor and Director, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria