Quo vadis #SDGs? What about the post-2030 global sustainability agenda? Here with
@WUR
students and colleagues, envisioning a cloud of pathways towards a safe, just and (planetary) healthy #FOODSYSTEM for 2100!

A new study claims that global agriculture could become carbon-negative by 2050, removing more CO2 than it emits. The study explores various scenarios of dietary change and technological innovation that could achieve this goal. This would require a radical food system transformation involving all actors and sectors.

#CarbonNegative #Agriculture #FoodSystem

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/agriculture/global-agriculture-carbon-negative/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FArchetypes

Global salt exports
#salt #foodSystem #food
Source: https://oec.world/en/profile/hs/salt.

The global trade in salt as sodium chloride: almost US$4 billion. Australia is the top exporter, US top importer.
#food #foodsystem #salt
https://oec.world/en/profile/hs/salt#:~:text=Salt%20are%20the%20world's%20599th,and%20South%20Korea%20(%24182M).

Concerns about #ultraprocessedfood continue to rise & certainly in the UK we have a #foodsystem geared to their delivery into the family home...

Part of the issue is supply, part is the question of education about #nutrition, but perhaps the biggest problem is the current system is structured to privilege the interests of the food industry mega-corps not the consumer... in other words 'healthy profits' are seen by Govt. as more important than healthy people

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/02/big-effort-needed-on-uk-diet-to-fight-ultra-processed-food-say-health-experts

@Monika_UK

Yes, this #foodsystem is not merely compromised by the Supermarkets, you are right to identify land ownership as another significant issue... although here the issue might be be around the Q. of leases on farm land which offers a possible avenue for food-positive regulation?

The dominance of #supermarkets is storing up severe problems in the UK's #foodsystem:

'The lack of small, independent food growers, producers & retailers leaves us ever more dependent on supermarkets & their self-interest... Our food system must be redesigned to put resilience & meeting people’s needs before profit for the few'!

While hardly a new diagnosis of our #food problems, here Andrew Simms makes a clear argument for why we need (radical) change & fast!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/15/britain-food-big-supermarkets-profits-jobs-suppliers

Fascinating global #FoodSystem analysis by Joseph Poore. It exposes the inefficiency of the current food system, and shows that a #plantbased system would reduce global #farmland by more than 75%, freeing up vast areas of land for #rewilding.

#PlantBasedDiet #GHGs #eutrophication #acidification #LandUse #WaterUse #biodiversity
#plantbasedTreaty

https://youtu.be/tXwt6vQ0Gi8

«There is a broad scientific consensus that our current #FoodSystem is
unsustainable and a major driver of #ClimateChange, biodiversity loss and
environmental degradation [...]. Radical system-wide changes are urgently
needed» but «A reduction of
meat consumption may also be framed as an "elitist #vegan agenda"».
https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/make-sustainable-and-healthy-food-easy-choice-says-group-chief-scientific-advisors-2023-06-28_en

Ah yes, the good old #EU strategy of unconditional surrender to the wishes of the biggest industry of the day.

Red states meet green gold, part infinity

#solar #agriculture #farms #farming #agrivoltaics #agrivoltaico #agrivoltaïsme #renewableenergy #indiana #usa #solarfarm #sdg7 #energy #electric #foodsystem

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/06/09/hoosiers-to-lead-rural-solar-power-revolution/

Steve & Ben spend a day a week knocking doors on their estate offering to plant free fruit trees in folks' gardens. Today, they are out with fruit bushes looking for new homes.

They've had a brilliant response, and it's opened up many wonderful connections and conversations about traditional food crops amongst their diverse community.

Residents will have fresh fruit on their doorstep at zero cost. The group also offer workshops in thrifty growing and caring for fruit trees.

It's a direct response to the #costoflivingcrisis that also improves climate & biodiversity.

Here's what Steve says: "The most direct way of addressing food poverty is getting together with friends, family and community and growing it. It's surprisingly easy, it starts with a conversation over a brew. Be that person who puts the kettle on and invites folk round." ❤️

Delighted we could support Community Roots Permaculture Project with a Transition Together seed-funding grant, supported by @tnlcommunityfund.

Read more about the impact of communities planting trees: https://transitiontogether.org.uk/communities-planting-trees-for-the-future/

#urbangrowing #foodpoverty #growyourown #fruittrees #fruitbushes #permaculture #bolton #fooddesert #transitiontown #transition #foodsystem #costofliving #communityaction #climateaction

@RichardJMurphy

Not sure if you've seen Geoff Tansey's work over the years - but his analysis of the #foodsystem would likely appeal... I think

see: http://www.tansey.org.uk

As Helen Thomas (FT) points out, when we're trying to track down the culprits of #greedflation, the #supermarkets are not really in the frame; 'the bigger picture is that the share of UK household budgets going on food has fallen from a third in 1950 to about 10%, low by international standards'.

But, as I have pointed out before, a focus on price(s), misses the distorting effects of the #supermarkets #oligopoly which has had a detrimental impact on our #foodsystem

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/economy/oligopolies-market-power-and-the-exploitation-of-the-consumer/

Our food system is wildly unsustainable, cruel to animals, and outright abusive and exploitative to many (most?) of the people who produce the food. I love being able to contribute to this timely and important research, working with smart and principled thinkers like Aaron Atteridge, author of this report. Skip the blog and go straight to the report -- it has a nice, succinct executive summary with helpful graphics.
https://justruraltransition.org/resource/principles-for-just-food-system-transitions/
#foodsystem #justtransition #food

The #foodsystem has large water & #landuse and is responsible for sizable GHG #emissions, mostly due to meat & #dairy. Eating less of it reduces #environment impacts & improves #health; vegan #diets have least impacts. #Meat drives high food expenditures: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107818

RT @FoodSHIFT2030
🎉Exciting news!
#FoodSHIFT2030 documentary is out 👉 https://foodshift2030.eu/seeds-of-change-documentary/
🌱 Seeds of Change is a #documentary portraying efforts of people in #Berlin & Brandenburg, building an #alternative #food #network to bring about a #foodsystem #transformation 💡
#H2020 @ZALF_leibniz

#GreenhouseGases resulting from #rotted & #wasted #food accounts for around half of all #global #FoodSystem #emissions , according to a new #study . 

Around 1/3 of all food produced is either #lost or wasted each year, according to the #UNFood and Agriculture Organization (#FAO ). 

One of the UN’s #Sustainable Development #Goals is to halve global #FoodWaste & #reduce food #losses in production & supply by 2030. 

https://www.carbonbrief.org/food-waste-makes-up-half-of-global-food-system-emissions/

1 BILLION people out of 8 billion people are obese.

Currently 1 in 8 people.
Likely 1 in 4 by 2035.

https://www.worldobesityday.org/

#WorldObesityDay #obesity #overweight #nutrition #diet #UPFs #food #foodSystem #foodIndustry

Today is world obesity day. It is time now to cut marketing for ultra-processed foods. It happened with tobacco. UPFs are addictive and toxic. This industry is killing people and needs regulation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7694501/

#WorldObesityDay #obesity #nutrition #diet #UPFs #food #foodSystem #foodIndustry

Free #webinar: Reducing the #environmental impact from #food

PLUS Q&A with Joseph Poore, Researcher at the #Oxford Martin Programme on Food #Sustainability Analytics, University of Oxford

In 2018, Joseph Poore published the most extensive global food system analysis to date

https://vegoforum.se/reducing-environmental-impact/

@climatejustice_events @vegan #PlantBasedTreaty #PlantBased #vegan #agriculture #FoodSystem #Hunger