Abstract
Despite growing calls for food system transformation, the need to develop a vision to guide that transformation is sometimes overlooked. Vision is essential to inspire, mobilize, and keep a collective of people on track toward their goals. Individual visions can be exhilarating, but the visions that create change are taken up by large groups or movements of movements. A vision is a beginning for transformation, but it requires policy that enables it to be enacted, ideally through democratic processes. The vision, buttressed by policy and democratic governance, is what determines where people are able to buy food, how much they pay, whether farmers earn decent incomes, and whether the food is healthy. Without vision, policies are likely to be incoherent or to work at cross-purposes, as has happened in the farm bill and the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy. A range of visions generated at different scales, from autonomous community to state to region, can serve as examples for people committed to food system transformation. See the press release for this article.
Highlights
Despite growing calls for food system transformation, the need to develop a vision to guide that transformation is sometimes overlooked
Note This paper is selected remarks from a keynote address on August 10, 2018, entitled What Do We Need for Food System Transformation?, given at the Place-Based Food Systems Conference that was hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at Kwantlen Polytechnic University
A range of visions generated at different scales, from autonomous community to state to region, can serve as examples for people committed to food system transformation
Summary
Despite growing calls for food system transformation, the need to develop a vision to guide that transformation is sometimes overlooked. A range of visions generated at different scales, from autonomous community to state to region, can serve as examples for people committed to food system transformation. Keywords Food System, Transformation, Agroecology, Vision, Indigenous Cosmologies, Commoning, Solidarity Economy, Food Sovereignty
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