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REPORT
June 2016
From Uniformity to Diversity
A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems
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Global food systems cannot become sustainable until input-intensive crop monocultures and industrial-scale feedlots are consigned to the past. Industrial farming – characterised by uniformity – brings with it severe consequences for the environment, climate, health, and farmer livelihoods to achieve productivity. Tweaking industrial practices will not provide long-term solutions to the problems they generate.
In this report, IPES-Food makes the case for agroecology – for a paradigm shift to diversified food and farming systems. It identifies eight structural ‘lock-ins’ holding back this transition, and the steps to break them. It recommends:
- Developing broader indicators for sustainable food systems that better capture the benefits of diversified farming and the costs of industrial agriculture;
- Developing integrated food policies at multiple levels and across political cycles;
- Reforming regulatory structures, finance and procurement practices to support agroecological production systems;
- Strengthening movements that unify diverse constituencies around agroecology.
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