ABSTRACT
Food policy is in crisis, in particular over health. Yet health can be the key to the solution to this crisis. For the last half-century, there has been one dominant model of food supply. This is now running out of steam and is being challenged by competing approaches: three major scenarios, each of which is shaping the future of food and health. We argue that, at the heart of any new vision, there has to be a coherent conception of how to link human with ecological health. Humanity has reached a critical juncture in its relationship to food supply and food policy, and both public and corporate policies are failing to grasp the enormity of the challenge. Food policy needs to provide solutions to the worldwide burden of disease, ill health and foodrelated environmental damage. There is a new era of experimentation underway emerging out of the decades we term the ‘Food Wars’. These have been characterized by struggles over how to conceive of the future of food and the shaping of minds, markets and mouths.
