SubjectFood
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...
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...
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...
Agri-food systems underpinned by the principles of ecological farming continue to grow far and wide across the planet, and 186 countries already implement...
The growth of cities is paving over nature, encroaching on farmland and stoning agriculture. If, as numerous studies show, urbanisation processes are becoming...
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...
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...
The school canteen purportedly plays a major role in the diet of children and teenagers, and is also said to be a tool for learning and education. But there...
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