Small-scale food producers’ role for sustainable food systems

This seminar will address the opportunities and challenges faced by small-scale food producers in transforming the global food system, including the issue of scale and with perspectives from both the global south and global north.

 

When & Where

Thursday 23 November 2023, 13.00-15.00
The Beijer Hall, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm

Invitation

The contributions of indigenous, smallholder and family-based food-production systems, both on land and in water, to the global food supply are considerable. They often conserve crop diversity, maintain landscape heterogeneity and implement sustainable practices. However, over the past 30  years, around 200 million jobs have been lost in food production globally, driving people to leave rural regions.

Making progress on internationally agreed sustainability goals for will require major changes to how the world’s food is produced and distributed. This will include empowering the people who already are producing a significant share of the world’s food, with this production becoming more sustainable, profitable and creative.

The pre-requisites for this empowering will be discussed by 2023 Volvo Environmental Prize Laureate Eduardo Brondizio together with Doctor Jamila Haider and small-scale farmer Courtney Adamson and the audience.

The seminar is free of charge but registration is required by 21 November.

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