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See: [[Food Sovereignty]] | See: [[Food Sovereignty]] | ||
As described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot<ref>https://www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/the-hunger-gap/</ref>: | |||
"The global food system – meaning the ways by which we grow, trade, process, pack, distribute, buy and eat our food – has all the characteristics of a complex system. It is subject to stresses similar to those that bore upon the global financial system in the approach to 2008. In other words, it is rapidly losing the six elements of systemic resilience: | |||
– Diversity | |||
– Asynchronicity | |||
– Redundancy | |||
– Modularity | |||
– Circuit Breakers | |||
– Back-Up Systems." | |||
"All complex systems, including the global food system, possess emergent properties. This means that their components, however simple they each might be, behave in non-linear ways when they combine." | |||
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Latest revision as of 04:50, 4 January 2024
See: Food Sovereignty
As described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot[1]:
"The global food system – meaning the ways by which we grow, trade, process, pack, distribute, buy and eat our food – has all the characteristics of a complex system. It is subject to stresses similar to those that bore upon the global financial system in the approach to 2008. In other words, it is rapidly losing the six elements of systemic resilience:
– Diversity
– Asynchronicity
– Redundancy
– Modularity
– Circuit Breakers
– Back-Up Systems."
"All complex systems, including the global food system, possess emergent properties. This means that their components, however simple they each might be, behave in non-linear ways when they combine."