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What is a “food system”?

A food system includes all processes involved in keeping us fed: growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consuming, and disposing of food [garbage, composting, human waste treatment].”

What is “food security”?

similar to ‘homeland security’: climate change, re-development of farmland, end of Peak oil, natural catastrophe or pandemic, sudden closing of the border; industrial farming and corporate agri-business;

“Food security can exist only within a food system that is sustainable on economic, environmental and social dimensions. Community food security has been defined as a ”condition in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance and social justice”.1 To achieve the goal of food security, a food system must provide a continuum of resources, ranging from short-term relief of acute food insecurity, through building the capacity of the community and its inhabitants to feed themselves, to redesigning the food system.”