The Food Equity Centre has launched a series of short videos interviewing experts on how food systems could be transformed to work better for people and the environment.
The following films – released by IDS to coincide with the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake (UNFSS+4), taking place this week – offer ideas around workers’ rights, taxation, challenging power structures and tackling corporate capture. Each film is just two minutes long and offers a succinct view of a particular challenge with today’s food systems.
Phillip Baker, senior research fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney in Australia, gives his perspectives on transforming food systems. He argues that redistribution of wealth, through fairer taxation, would enable more households to source, prepare and consume healthy food.
Dee Woods is Food Justice Policy Coordinator at the Land Workers Alliance and co-founder of Granville Community Kitchen. In this short video, she explains how modern food systems are like plantations, built on the legacies of colonialism. Those people working in food systems – from those in fields, in factories, in hospitality need to have their labour fairly compensated, she argues.
Lidia Cabral is a Research Fellow at IDS and a co-founder of the Food Equity Centre. She presents ways in which food systems could be transformed, through reforming structures of power, questioning views that associate overproduction and overconsumption with freedom and choice, and learning from the past.
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Stuart Gillespie is non-resident Senior Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute and Honorary Associate, IDS. He explains how inequities in food systems are largely down to the control that corporates have acquired over the last 50 years, arguing that government oversight and citizen action is required to put people and planet over profit.
“Too often, people talk about food system transformations but propose narrow fixes that do not shift us beyond the current structure which is dominated by corporate power, lacks environmental sustainability and prioritises food which is low in nutritional value,” said Nick Nisbett, Research Fellow and co-founder of the Food Equity Centre. “We wanted to show with these four videos that to make food systems work for everyone, we need to think big about the changes that are needed.”
The Food Equity Centre is a partnership which exists to challenge the power and politics that make food systems inequitable. Hosted by IDS, the Centre conducts research and generate contextualized knowledge into the complex socio-economic factors that lead to certain people being unable to access affordable, nutritious food, or earn a decent living in the food system.
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The films were produced by Chalkstone Films.
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