ABSTRACT
The picture is becoming clearer each day: whilst the food system does “feed the world” – or at least most of it – it does so with enormous costs levied on people and the planet as a whole. The food system is, in a technical sense, a complex system, arising out of decades of decisions by governments, farmers, businesses and consumers of food. It was not designed to be as it is, but developed to its current state due to governments and businesses striving to make food ever more available and cheaper. The need to transform food systems is rising up the political agenda, which begs the questions: what would a transformed food system look like, who gets to decide and what processes – especially political ones – would allow the best vision to be realised?
