Powerful vested interests stand in the way of shifting food systems to effectively manage growing hunger, climate threats and ecological decline
London — As global hunger swiftly rises — by more than a third in 2022 — curbing it will require not growing more food but rethinking broader systems of trade and aid, farming's heavy reliance on fossil fuels, food waste and meat eating, experts said.
As global leaders look for ways to keep food available and affordable, and prevent rising hunger, “it's not about food scarcity because there’s no food scarcity,” Lymbery noted.Globally, hunger is surging, with 258-million people in nearly 60 countries facing acute food insecurity last year, a 33% jump from 2021, according to the Global Report on Food Crises 2023, released in March.
“We depend more and more on a small number of countries for production of the major crops we depend on,” said Olivier De Schutter, co-chair of IPES-Food, an international expert panel on sustainable food systems. Helping poorer countries escape their often heavy debt burdens could also help them shore up their food security, allowing them to focus more on growing food for their own people rather than raising export crops to bring in the cash needed to service debt, De Schutter said.Benton, of Chatham House, said two very different views of how to achieve future security are now competing.
“Everybody agrees food system transformation is needed” — just not what kind, said Molly Anderson, a food studies professor at Middlebury College in the US.
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