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Towards a new food modelTowards food sovereignty
As Vandana Shiva asserts, the health of the planet and ours are inextricably linked. If we hurt the planet, we are hurting ourselves. The agri-food system has...
Towards a new food modelGleaning to shift gears
The industrialised agri-food system is unsustainable. The very agents promoting this model are beginning to look for ways to avert its collapse. Gleaning that...
Towards a new food modelThe commercialisation of agriculture: impacts and alternatives
Since the mid-20th century, agriculture has undergone more transformations than in the last ten thousand years. It has gone from being a common good to becoming a...
Towards a new food modelObesity as the epitome of precariousness
Although sufficient food is produced to meet the needs of the entire population, inequalities in food access mean that one third of what is produced is wasted...
Towards a new food modelAdvantages and possibilities of organic farming
Agri-food systems underpinned by the principles of ecological farming continue to grow far and wide across the planet, and 186 countries already implement...
Towards a new food modelCounterurbanisation
The growth of cities is paving over nature, encroaching on farmland and stoning agriculture. If, as numerous studies show, urbanisation processes are becoming...
Towards a new food modelSitopia: Rethinking Our Lives Through Food
We live in a world shaped by food; a place the author calls sitopia, or ‘food-place’. By valuing food and giving communities control over their land, we could...
Towards a new food modelFood for a good life
Today’s food system – the way we produce, process, distribute, sell and consume food and manage its waste – spawns disease, inequality and poverty, and harms the...
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