Designing Food Systems to Protect Nature and Get Rid of Hunger
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By Vandana Shiva
Al Jazeera
September 9, 2012
Industrial production of food has created a severe ecological and social crisis, and in order to ensure the supply of healthy food, we must move towards agro-ecological and sustainable systems of food production. Vandana Shiva’s article points out that the agrarian crisis, the food crisis and the nutrition and health crisis are intimately connected and need to be addressed together. Industrial agriculture, sold as the “Green Revolution” to developing countries, is a chemical intensive, capital intensive, fossil fuel intensive system that destroys biodiversity. The most effective strategy to address hunger and malnutrition is through biodiverse organic farming that enriches the soil and provides more nutritious food.
Industrialisation of agriculture creates hunger and malnutrition, destroying the food web to which we all belong.
Hunger and malnutrition is manmade. It is in the design of the industrial chemical model of agriculture. And just as hunger has been created by design, producing healthy and nutritious food for all can be designed through food democracy.
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