There is an environmental cost of food, always has been, and reducing it is a complexity challenge
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Why did the snail cross the road?
Why indeed? A snail has no notion of roads, what they are made of or what they are used for or even that it is lousy habitat for a gastropod. So what, you might ask...
Finding solutions to future food
Humans are good at errors. We love telling people that they are wrong even when our pot is as burnt as their kettle. Critiques are not enough to shape our future...
Meatless Monday?
It might make you feel good to go meatless on a Monday. But what about the billions of people who do not have the luxury of such a choice? Where do they get their nutrients?
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Should farmers be indentured servants?
Modern food production is geared for profit. The producer has less and less control over the process that sets input costs and price. Is it time for governments to intervene to support the family farm?
Rising inequality and food
The good, the bad, and the ugly of capitalism are with everyone now. Inequality is especially insidious with the concentration of wealth and access to food creating a wicked conundrum...
Priorities for our food system
Humanity has a great need for food. We exist in unprecedented numbers and every person has a calorific and nutrient demand just to keep body and soul together. This has put food production and diet in the spotlight...
Why rare species might not matter
Alloporus constantly bangs on about why biodiversity is not a synonym for conservation. Sustainably FED agrees, and here we discuss why… Spoiler alert — rare is not what matters most.
The monumental 22 trillion a day challenge
Humanity has faced many challenges from famine, war and pestilence to climate change and COVID-19. So far we have overcome them all through fortitude, imagination and sacrifice. However, the biggest challenge awaits...
Population – the good news or the bad news?
More people is good news, right? More customers, taxes, opportunities and overall development of humanity. Well, there is bad news too...
Would a climate silver bullet make us sustainable?
It would be nice to fire a silver bullet at climate change to make it go away. If such munitions existed all our troubles would be over. We think not...
