Input-intensive crop monocultures and industrial-scale feedlots must be
consigned to the past in order to put global food systems onto a
sustainable track, according to a team of experts on food security,
agro- ecosystems and nutrition. The solution is to diversify agriculture
and reorient it around ecological practices, whether the starting point
is highly-industrialized agriculture or subsistence farming in the
world’s poorest countries, they argue. The International Panel of
Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), led by former UN
Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, published
its findings in the report From uniformity to diversity. The authors call for diversified agroecological systems. We have summarised the main messages of the report.
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