Food is at the heart of the key challenge facing humanity – creating sustainable, healthy ways in which everyone can have sufficient sustenance, in diverse communities that peacefully cooperate with each other.
Choices about how we feed ourselves this century are also choices about what kind of future we humans want, in the face of unprecedented challenges from climate change. Watch the Food Systems Academy guest lecture: Climate change and agriculture: adaptation and mitigation . See more about these issues on this and the Food Systems Academy websites.
When common land accessible by the people was taken into private hands in England from the 16th century it began a period known as the enclosures. Today, through an expanding use of patents and other forms of 'intellectual property', a new set of enclosures globally is occurring rapidly of different kinds of commons such as in knowledge and genetics. Read more