N120 - Oct 21
Towards a new food modelToday’s food system contributes to environmental degradation and does not ensure healthy and sufficient food for all. What needs to change to achieve a fair, healthy and sustainable food system? Two hundred and ten cities around the world, including Barcelona, are committed to promoting safe, environmentally friendly agri-food systems that promote biodiversity and do not exclude anyone.
DossierTowards a new food model
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...
The coronavirus health emergency has made us see that the planet’s health and our health are inseparable. We must deglobalise the food system that is driving climate...
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...
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...
The growth of cities is paving over nature, encroaching on farmland and stoning agriculture. If, as numerous studies show, urbanisation processes are becoming...
Agri-food systems underpinned by the principles of ecological farming continue to grow far and wide across the planet, and 186 countries already implement...
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...
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...
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...
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