ABSTRACT

By 2050, the world’s population is estimated to grow to 10 billion. To feed everyone, we will have to double our food production, to produce more food in the next 40 years than in the whole of the last 6,000. Changing the Food Game shows how our unsustainable food production system cannot support this growth. In this prescient book, Lucas Simons argues that the biggest challenge for our generation can only be solved by effective market transformation to achieve sustainable agriculture and food production.

Lucas Simons explains clearly how we have created a production and trading system that is inherently unsustainable. But he also demonstrates that we have reason to be hopeful – from a sustainability race in the cocoa industry to examples of market transformation taking place in palm oil, timber, and sugarcane production. He also poses the question: where next?

Provocative and eye-opening, Changing the Food Game uncovers the real story of how our food makes it on to our plates and presents a game-changing solution to revolutionize the industry.

part I|56 pages

What is the problem?

chapter 1|5 pages

Guatemala, where it all began

chapter 2|16 pages

What you eat impacts the world

chapter 4|25 pages

Why do agricultural markets fail?

part II|142 pages

What is the solution?

chapter 5|12 pages

Phases of market transformation

chapter 6|22 pages

How does market transformation start?

chapter 7|42 pages

The first mover and competition phase

chapter 9|12 pages

The level playing field phase

chapter 10|18 pages

Key questions about market transformation

chapter 11|16 pages

Ten examples of inspirational change-makers