Building Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century - Kent Mullinix

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 03:10:31 +0000

⁣A sustainable food system is the foundation of sustainable society and therefore must be realized. Agriculture and food systems in the 21st century will exist and operate in an economic, social, environment, and resource context very different from that in which our contemporary industrial food system came to dominate. Industrialization is not the only way to feed the world. Two competing agriculture-food system paradigms, "Life-Science Intensive" and "Ecologically Intensive", claim the sustainability high ground and are battling it out. To inform critical and constructive thinking regarding an appropriate food system future, this presentation will assess outcomes of 20th century food system industrialization and factors and forces that are now and continually shaping our food system. A vision for advancing sustainable 21st century agri-food systems to address and adapt to environmental, social, and economic challenges will be presented.

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Building Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century - Kent Mullinix
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