{"id":54031,"date":"2020-07-08T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54031"},"modified":"2020-07-08T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:13:19","slug":"food-sovereignty-now-and-beyond-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54031","title":{"rendered":"Food sovereignty now and beyond COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Food sovereignty now and beyond COVID-19<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

COVID-19 has changed daily realities in nearly every corner of the world. But for millions of people, fears about access to food have made the crisis even worse. Recently the UN warned of disruption to food supplies<\/a> and further loss of incomes and livelihoods<\/a> \u2013 up to 1.6 billion workers affected in the formal economy alone. Food banks and community organisations are doing their best to help those in immediate need. But as the pandemic collides with inequality and climate emergency, it\u2019s clear we need major changes in our approach to food and agriculture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Farmers in Kenya are effectively applying ecological farming practices that are increasing their ability to build resilience to and cope with climate change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The food system was broken long before coronavirus came along. The current crisis has exposed the fault-lines and renewed urgency to tackle root causes<\/a>. This means asking hard questions and digging deeper for solutions. How is it that 30% of food is wasted globally and unhealthy food is fuelling obesity<\/a> and diabetes, while 820 million people don\u2019t have enough to eat<\/a>? Why are millions being \u201cforced to choose between hunger or COVID-19<\/a>\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The industrial and commodity-based food system has failed to adequately feed many people in this world. This isn\u2019t due to a lack of food but to the conditions of extreme inequality, and the wrong type of food being produced, traded or promoted by powerful corporate interests that control the food and agriculture sectors. COVID-19 has once again shown us just how risky it is to let corporations be in charge of feeding people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shopping at Raspail Market in central Paris. Raspail is one of the largest ecological markets in Paris. \u00a9 Peter Caton \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Changing our food system<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Food sovereignty now and beyond COVID-19 COVID-19 has changed daily realities in nearly every corner of the world. But for millions of people, fears about access to food have made the crisis even worse. Recently the UN warned of disruption to food supplies and further loss of incomes and livelihoods \u2013 up to 1.6 billion workers affected in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[29982,1912,387,855],"class_list":["post-54031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-eric-darier","tag-food-production","tag-greenpeace","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54032,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54031\/revisions\/54032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}