Heading Toward More Sustainable Food Systems?
Within the “Sustainable Food Laboratory”, political, corporate and civil-society authorities unite at international level in order to make food systems evolve toward more sustainability.
Even though the food production quantity issues have been solved in many countries, the current food systems are the vehicle of new major issues (obesity, malnutrition, ecological pollutions, loss of biodiversity, destruction of non-renewable natural resources, destruction of rural and maritime communities). This article, published in Chinese in the journal “Technologies in China”, introduces the multi-actor “Sustainable Food Laboratory” process initiated in June 2004, which associates managers of large farm-produce companies, politicians, people from NGOs and social organisations, at international level, in order to make food systems evolve toward more sustainability. The document introduces the “U process”, the different phases of this process, the actors engaged, the lead projects launched and a global reflexion over this process, which is an innovating one in terms of new management forms and transition from reflexion to action with multiple actors.
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