ABSTRACT
The idea of “sustainable food systems” – those that deliver “food security and nutrition for all in such a way that the economic, social and environmental bases to generate food security and nutrition for future generations are not compromised”– has jumped into the scientific and policy lexicon. A diversity of state-anchored institutional designs have emerged at global, national and sub-national levels as invited spaces for sustainable food governance. The pyramid represents the total space in which the Hybrid actors contest food systems issues and/or act collectively to address them. A number of important changes in food actor configurations and power relations have occurred, with important implications for healthy and sustainable food systems. Much of the food politics literature refers to the instrumental power of ‘Big Food’ in undermining political commitment for action and shaping food and nutrition policies through corporate lobbying activities.
