De Schutter on the future of food (#journal)

SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THE ERA OF FOOD SYSTEMS: REACHING A MORE INTEGRATED APPROACH: THE SPECTER OF PRODUCTIVISM AND FOOD DEMOCRACY

UN Special rappoteur on the Right to Food, Oliver De Schutter, discusses the future of food production and food policy, and encourages a move away from productivism (obsession with simple quantitative measures of food production) towards sustainability and food security, ensuring everyone has access to food and that environmental harms of food production systems are eliminated.