Food from Somewhere: Building food security and resilience

TitleFood from Somewhere: Building food security and resilience
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Year of Publication2024
AuthorsInternational_Panel_Of_Experts_On_Sustainable_Food_Systems _
Pagination1-90
Key themesAgriculturalModernization, Conversion-FoodSecurity, FDI, Urban
Abstract

Recent shocks – from COVID-19 supply disruptions to 2022’s record food prices – have revealed huge cracks in global industrial food chains, and shattered any remaining illusions about their ability to deliver food security in a crisis-prone world. Persistent crises have also underscored the importance of resilient close-to-home ‘territorial’ markets that feed billions of people every day – from public markets and street vendors to cooperatives, from urban agriculture to online direct sales, from food hubs to community kitchens. Food From Somewhere provides a comprehensive overview of these diverse food webs. It documents their critical contributions to sustaining producer livelihoods, ensuring access to healthy food for the poorest populations, sustaining cultures and communities, and keeping people fed in the face of shocks. The report urges governments to reinvest in local and regional supply infrastructure, relocalise public purchasing and food security strategies, and curb corporate capture of food systems.

URLhttps://ipes-food.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/FoodFromSomewhere.pdf
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Report