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The term food system describes the interconnected systems and processes that influence nutrition, food, health, community development, and agriculture.A food system includes all processes and infrastructure involved in feeding a population: growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consumption, distribution, and disposal of food and food-related items.
Sustainable food systems have been argued to be central to many [1] or all [2] 17 Sustainable Development Goals. [3] Moving to sustainable food systems, including via shifting consumption to sustainable diets, is an important component of addressing the causes of climate change and adapting to it.
The definition of agrifood systems' resilience is adapted from Tendall et al.'s definition of food system resilience, which is “capacity over time of a food system and its units at multiple levels, to provide sufficient, appropriate and accessible food to all, in the face of various and even unforeseen disturbances”.
Each of these factors affects individual groups of people differently, but all share the common attribute of being detrimental to local food distribution and food systems. [1] Two prominent examples of risk factors' negative effect on a society's food distribution system are the situation in Japan during World War II and Africa during the late ...
Addressing the carbon intensity of the food system and food waste are important mitigation measures in the global response to climate change. [2] [3] The food system has significant impacts on a wide range of other social and political issues, including: sustainability, biological diversity, economics, population growth, water supply, and ...
Direct farm-to-table in the United States tends to comprise only a very minor segment of the food distribution system in terms of size and importance, but is growing in popularity. [7] Farmers’ markets: centerpiece of alternative food distribution systems. The first certified farmers’ markets began appearing roughly 25 years ago and are a ...
Farm-to-table restaurants significantly influence local food systems by promoting sustainable agriculture practices and strengthening connections between producers and consumers. For example, a study of Chez Panisse, often credited as a pioneer of the farm-to-table model, highlights its role in re-localizing food systems.
Food sovereignty is a food system in which the people who produce, distribute, and consume food also control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distribution. This stands in contrast to the present corporate food regime , in which corporations and market institutions control the global food system .