FOOD SYSTEMS 101
Made by Wholesome Wave for Farms Food and Jobs Working Group
https://ctfoodsystemalliance.com/
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A food system is a web of interconnected activities, actors, policies, and cultural norms that shape how our food is produced, processed, transported, consumed, and disposed of. In our current system, this web relies heavily on extracting resources, including fossil fuels. Power and wealth is concentrated with multinational corporations at the expense of small scale producers, indigenous peoples, and peasant farmers and landholders around the world. Workers throughout the food system, especially migrant workers, face unsafe working conditions and unjust workplace environments. Food production focused on large monocrops, the use of chemicals, and high yields at all costs is a threat to biodiversity, our economy, and the climate. |
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Food councils are community-based coalitions that use different avenues to work towards resilient food systems. These avenues may include gathering information and responding to community needs, coordinating efforts between sectors of the food system, evaluating and advocating for policy, and developing or supporting local programs and services. To address this web that makes up a food system as a whole, there needs to be coordinated and comprehensive organizing in communities around the world to build a better system. Food councils can fill this need for systems solutions. |
WHAT FOOD COUNCILS CAN DO
From North Carolina Local Food Coalition https://www.nclocalfoodcouncil.org/
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