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The future of food: 10 “impossible imperatives” | |
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2021-10-18 | |
发布年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 国际 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | by Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., co-founder, and Marta Antonelli, Ph.D., Food Systems Project Lead, Global Footprint Network We are excited to initiate a multi-year collaboration exploring how to make the food system one-planet compatible. Our partners are Wageningen University and the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), with gracious and generous support of and collaboration with Avina Stiftung. Why food? While carbon emissions are quantitatively the largest contributor to humanity’s overall demand on nature, food demand alone occupies about 50% of our planet’s biocapacity. What is even more significant is the lack of clarity, even in theory, how the food system could be made one-planet compatible, while also enabling greater health (one health). Let’s compare food to the carbon dimension of ecological overshoot. The challenge of carbon emissions is widely recognized. Also, we can count on existing and emerging technology to help change the global emissions curve. For instance, solar, wind, and battery technology are getting more cost-competitive with fossil fuel. So, in theory, we know what could be done, even though in practice, the overarching energy trends persist. Fossil fuels represent the same share of global commercial energy as they did 30 years ago when the first Climate Convention was signed in Rio, or back in 1973 when the world was surprised by an oil crisis. Since then, overall energy consumption has more than doubled. In contrast to the energy dimension, the food dimension of overshoot does not even have a meaningful theoretical perspective: the intricate nature of the rapidly shifting food challenge is unclear and unfamiliar to most. Against this backdrop, we are starting our collaboration based on recognizing ten “impossible imperatives” the food system is facing. This is how we see them:
It is time for a food system overhaul, from farm to fork. For a more detailed discussion of the ten imperatives, see here. Based on these imperatives, we are exploring with our partners how they can be tackled as a whole. Stay tuned! |
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来源平台 | Global Footprint Network |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/340711 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
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