Future Food System Summit Summary
What happened in our Future Food Systems Summit
Common Values:
No hay como una mente individual, sino es una colectividad. De eso trata el trabajo colaborativo.
– Summit participant
Participants came together and identified common values across the three group visions
Los conocimientos de las personas en las comunidades es muy importante, ya que esos conocimientos que tienen vienen de atrás de los abuelos, como nosotros los llamamos, los ancestros, esos conocimientos hacen acción, hacen trabajo, entonces, puede trabajar la tierra, puede entrar a este giro agrícola.
– Summit participant
Final Vision:
Based on common values, participants created a shared vision of a desirable food system in 2050
Today, in the year 2050, our food systems are the fruit of collaborative effort (work) and participatory, inclusive and equitable governance that puts care of people and nature at the center and that guarantees the right to adequate, healthy, and sustainable food (alimentacion). Our foods are produced in the country and in the city, recognizing the biocultural diversity of the territories and following agroecological principles.
The earth’s fertility has been restored, water is (well) managed, and there exists a great diversity of seeds, which are accessible, local, and culturally appropriate. Food distribution takes place through sustainable food networks, which consider fair trade and trueque (traditional systems of barter and exchange), as a consequence of change in the capitalist system. We feed ourselves in an informed, conscious, reasoned, solidary way, seeking health and nutrition and care for the environment. We have time to produce, select, prepare and share our foods and knowledges. There is no longer food waste and residues are managed adequately.
Art representation of the vision
What happened in our Future Food Systems Summit
Our Mexico team
Prof. Dr. Verena Seufert
Junior Professor
Dr. Anne Elise Stratton
Postdoctoral Researcher
Marisol Galicia
Research Coordinator Mexico
Kaya Lange
M.Sc. Student
Kelzy Jepsen
PhD Candidate
Our Mexico collaborators
Dr. Ayari Pasquier
Researcher & Collaborator - UNAM
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