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March 2021
A Long Food Movement
Transforming food systems by 2045
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Where are we now and in what direction are we headed? Climate change, biodiversity loss, and rapidly declining soil fertility are critically damaging the health of people and the planet, dislocating societies, and threatening food systems around the world.
In this major report, IPES-Food & the ETC Group map out two very different futures for food systems, people and the planet:
- Under an ‘agribusiness-as-usual’ scenario, the food system is in the hands of data platforms, private equity firms, and e-commerce giants – putting the food security of billions at the mercy of high-risk AI-controlled farming systems, accelerating environmental breakdown.
- On the other hand, civil society and social movements reclaim the initiative – with grassroots organizations to international NGOs, farmers’ and fishers’ groups to cooperatives and unions joining together.
We imagine what a ‘Long Food Movement’ could achieve by 2045 if these movements succeed in collaborating more closely to transform financial flows, governance structures, and food systems from the ground up.
Lim Li Ching, co-chair of IPES-Food and senior researcher at the Third World Network
The report challenges civil society to think long term and strategically, so we can change the inequitable and unsustainable food systems we have today. This to realize the food systems we want: rooted in agroecology, food sovereignty and human rights.
Lim Li Ching, co-chair of IPES-Food and senior researcher at the Third World Network
Million Belay, IPES-Food expert and general coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
The report shows that our food system, our life, will be in the hands of agribusiness conglomerates if we, as a civil society, do not get our act together and work for an alternative scenario. It also shows what a better food system looks like and what civil society could do to make it happen.
Million Belay, IPES-Food expert and general coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Raj Patel, IPES-Food expert and Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas
The multiple crises of the industrial food system demand, and offer opportunities for, profound transformation. This report is a thoughtful and strategic answer to the question: ‘if we want the future to look different, what must we change today?
Raj Patel, IPES-Food expert and Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas
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