How to build a better food system
Regenerative food production
Transitioning to a circular economycircular economyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature. means moving towards a food system that builds natural capital and allows nature to thrive.
Regenerative food production means growing food in ways that generate positive outcomes for nature such as healthy and stable soils, improved local biodiversity, improved air and water quality.
It is implemented through practices tailored to local contexts such as using diverse crop varieties and cover crops, rotational grazing, and agroforestry (growing trees around or among crops or pasture) and results in agricultural land that more closely resembles natural ecosystems like forest and native grassland, providing habitat for a wide range of organisms.
Eliminating food waste
With the circular economy, we can build a food system that ensures our food never creates waste.
It prevents food waste, redistributes surplus edible food to people who need it and inedible food by-products and human waste become inputs for new products.
