{"id":58307,"date":"2021-06-19T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T13:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58307"},"modified":"2021-06-19T08:10:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T13:10:01","slug":"a-circular-food-system-can-withstand-crises-like-covid-19-and-provide-delicious-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58307","title":{"rendered":"A circular food system can withstand crises like COVID-19\u00a0\u2014 and provide delicious\u00a0meals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A circular food system can withstand crises like COVID-19<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 and provide delicious\u00a0meals<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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There are many hard lessons learned from the pandemic. One is that our food system needs a serious reboot. Luckily, we need only look to nature\u2019s cycles for clues on how to fix it.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0circular food economy<\/a>, food waste becomes valuable, affordable healthy food becomes accessible to everyone and innovation uses a regenerative approach to how food is produced, distributed and consumed.<\/p>\n

A pilot initiative in the Ontario city of Guelph and surrounding Wellington County, called\u00a0Our Food Future<\/a>, is Canada\u2019s first circular food economy. It is demonstrating what a regional circular food model can look and taste like.<\/p>\n

Falling out of sync with nature<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pandemic has magnified deep inefficiencies and inequity in the food system. On one hand, we see tremendous food waste and on the other, worsening food insecurity.<\/p>\n

One estimate is that\u00a040 per cent of food is wasted<\/a>\u00a0in our current system. Meanwhile,\u00a0one in eight Canadians worry about their next meal, and one in six children<\/a>\u00a0who go hungry each day. In Toronto, Canada\u2019s largest city, the situation is even worse, with\u00a0one in five residents experiencing food insecurity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The food system has evolved into a linear model of\u00a0take-make-waste<\/a>. We take from the ground the nutrients needed to grow food, make it into many products that line supermarket shelves, and then consume it, thinking little of the waste produced. This linear model is out of sync with the cycles seen in nature that were inherent in food production practices for thousands of years.<\/p>\n

Food, design and systems thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wading through the complexities of the food system can be overwhelming, but there are many opportunities to design a better model. First, it\u2019s important to see the connections between food and design.<\/p>\n

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A circular food system can withstand crises like COVID-19\u00a0\u2014 and provide delicious\u00a0meals There are many hard lessons learned from the pandemic. One is that our food system needs a serious reboot. Luckily, we need only look to nature\u2019s cycles for clues on how to fix it. In a\u00a0circular food economy, food waste becomes valuable, affordable […]<\/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":[2,4,7],"tags":[103,31355,16286,7276,1378,607,31354,8487],"class_list":["post-58307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-canada","tag-circular-food-system","tag-food-insecurity","tag-food-systems","tag-ontario","tag-pandemic","tag-sarah-tranum","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58307","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=58307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58310,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58307\/revisions\/58310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}