The food and agricultural transition is already ongoing, and it is leading straight to an undesirable global food system. Yet, policies that would need to be implemented are known and obstacles to be overcome have been identified. Left is the need to create a favourable policy context that should rest on an alliance between producers and consumers. Only then will it be possible to conduct the desirable transition towards more sustainable food systems.
More articles on transition published on hungerexplained.org
December 2023 – Energy and Food – Energy and Food are closely interlinked. What are these linkages? What implications for the transition towards less energy-intensive, more sustainable and more climate-friendly food systems? [read]
November 2022 – Bioeconomy – Its development likely to cause higher food prices. Rapid growth of bioeconomy will create a more intense competition among various possible uses of biomass (food, feed, energy, textiles, wood and paper, chemicals, medicine, etc.). [read]
16 October 2021 – Public support to agriculture has been promoting unhealthy and polluting products and generating more inequality in the world – A transition to more sustainable food systems (economically, socially and environmentally) will require a total reengineering of current support policies. [read]
30 March 2021 – Responsible businesses or greenwashing? The certification industry in support of multinationals – More rigorous laws and certification processes might allow consumers to identify companies and products that respect satisfactory social, environmental and health norms. [read]
8 March 2021 – The European Union’s challenging but imperative green transition – Despite the Green Deal for Europe launched in December 2019, indicators show that EU’s food and agriculture are not on track for successful food and climatic transitions. [read]
8 September 2019 – Implementing the ecological transition : the example of Totnes in the United Kingdom. The small town (8,000 inhabitants) located in Devon has the ambition to be autonomous from the point of view of food and energy by 2030. [read]
8 May 2019 – Life plagued by human madness: we must change our paradigms, objectives and values – The decrease of the number of species is accelerating and number of living organisms is regressing even for those species who are not at risk of extinction. These are the consequences of human activities and of the vision humankind has of the world and of the position it believes to hold in it. [read]
25 March 2018 – Is organic agriculture, under pressure from consumers, turning into the central element of the transition from a conventional “chemical” agriculture towards a more sustainable agriculture? The answer is clearly : yes. [read]