Justice in food systems transformations: taking the next step! (ENG)
This workshop is in English
Our global food system is contributing to, and affected by, major sustainability challenges. The way we produce, process, trade and consume our food is exceeding planetary boundaries, as it feeds into critical issues such as biodiversity loss, land use change, freshwater withdrawals, chemical pollution and climate change. At the same time, power inequalities in the global food system are leading to social shortfalls and injustices, such as hunger, poverty, social unrest and gender inequalities. As clearly depicted by systems thinking tools such as Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics (2017), we cannot see these two detrimental impacts of our global food system as separate symptoms. They emerge from the very same system, are connected with each other, feed into each other. As such, if we want to effectively address food system sustainability challenges we will also have to tackle systemic injustices, and vice versa. In short: no sustainability transformation without justice.