Food security and Canada’s agricultural system challenged by COVID-19
Food security and Canada’s agricultural system challenged by COVID-19 by B. James Deaton & Brady J. Deaton:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cjag.12227
Food and climate change are deeply interlinked
Food and #climatechange are deeply interlinked, but #food emissions need to be tracked beyond the “farm gate,” says authors of a new paper. See infographic on global #greenhousegas emissions from the #foodsystem: @IPCC_CH @UNFCCC @CGIARclimate
Food Safety & better nutrition
#FoodSafety & better #nutrition are real and serious challenges facing billions of people in low- and middle-income countries worldwide in urban & rural settings. Addressing both these issues is critical to achieving our #SDGs. Read more: https://on.cgiar.org/37mkUAI via @A4NH_CGIAR
The State of Food and Agriculture -SOFA 2019
A new SOFA by @FAO is available here: fao.org/state-of-food- it addresses an important topic of #foodwaste and #foodloss.
OPINION: Agroecology can help fix broken food system
The various incarnations of the sustainable food movement need a science with which to approach a system as complex as food and farming.
June 17, 2015 — Thumb through U.S. newspapers any day in early 2015, and you could find stories on President Obama’s “fast-track” plans for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, antibiotic scares and the worsening California drought. Economists reported on steadily rising income inequality, while minimum-wage food workers took to the picket lines. Americans fled their kitchens and Chipotle welcomed them with farm-friendly appeal. Scientists recorded the warmest winter in history.
These seemingly disconnected events have a common thread: They all are symptoms of a political economy out of kilter with the welfare of the planet and the people who live on it. They are also nestled deep in the way food is grown, distributed and consumed today. What we sometimes call the “agri-food system” is clearly broken — just ask farm workers and food workers (exploited and underpaid), honeybees (collapsing), forested landscapes (fragmenting), the climate (warming), and the ever-growing number of people without access to nutritious food, or the land and resources with which to produce it.
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