NEW 📰 IPES-Food & @ETC_Group launch the #LongFoodMovement report | What would 2045 look like if it's still "agribusiness-as-usual"? Or can civil society & social movements prevail for healthy, equitable & sustainable #foodsystems? 🌍

Discover more at http://bit.ly/longfood  🌱
"Agribusiness-as-usual" means a powerful few control #food tech & farming #data.

But civil society can fight back.

A #LongFoodMovement can boost post-pandemic resilience, slash emissions in ag. by 75%, & shift $4 trillion to sustainable food & farming: http://bit.ly/longfood 
A 'Long Food Movement' can boost post- #pandemic resilience, slash emissions in #agriculture and food systems by 75%, and shift $4 trillion to sustainable food & farming.

🔎 Find out more http://bit.ly/longfood 

#LongFoodMovement #biodiversity #OneHealth
#PressRelease 🗞️ Global #food and #farming set for “corporate tidal wave,” warns report - calls for 25-year #LongFoodMovement - http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/LFMpressrelease
Our new report offers hope, but it also sounds the alarm on control of food #tech, farming #data, and corporate takeover of @UN multilateral agencies. http://bit.ly/longfood 
Civil society, social movements, #farmers, fishers, food workers, unions, businesses & cooperatives ...

#LongFoodMovement means sparking 25 years of transformation for healthy, resilient and equitable food systems! http://bit.ly/longfood  @FoodSystems
Civil society & social movements can fight back against corporate capture & concentration of power, boosting post-pandemic #resilience, slashing agriculture’s #GHG emissions by 75%, & shifting $4 trillion to sustainable food and #farming.

🔎 http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/LFMpressrelease
So will it be ' #agribusiness-as-usual'?

Or by 2045 can a #LongFoodMovement take root & fight back against the degradation of #soils, #climatechange & #biodiversity loss?

🔎 Read the full report: http://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/LongFoodMovementEN.pdf
#Interview đź’¬Why now for a #LongFoodMovement?

What's the controversy over #tech in food systems anyway?

And what's the problem with this “multi-stakeholder” governance ahead of the UN #FoodSystems Summit?

We got the answers from Pat Mooney:

👉🏾 http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/Long-Food-Movement-Pat-Mooney
#FAQs ❓ Is this report against #technologies? Don’t we need new #ag innovations to address #climatechange and other threats?

đź’ˇ Actually, many technological innovations are central to the civil society-led transformation described in
this report ...

🔎 http://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/FAQs_LongFoodMovement_EN.pdf
Million Belay on the urgent need for a Long Food Movement.

đź“– This report says how it could happen, and what will occur if civil society doesn't organise to make it so.

🔎 http://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/LongFoodMovementEN.pdf

#foodsystems @Afsafrica @Million_Belay
"Many food chain #workers have been deemed 'essential' enough to put their lives on the line to feed us, with corporate meatpacking plants
& farmworker communities among the hotbeds of #Covid19. Yet these same workers are often invisible under the law." 🔎 http://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/LongFoodMovementEN.pdf
"If we want the future to look different, what must we change today?" - @_RajPatel of @UTAustin.

A #LongFoodMovement could boost post-pandemic resilience, slash agriculture’s GHG emissions by 75%, and shift $4 trillion to sustainable food and farming.

It's worth fighting for.
The #LongFoodMovement described in this report offers hope. If social movements, farmers, cooperatives & unions work together like never before.

But the dangers of business-as-usual in #foodsystems are real - with real consequences for people & planet.

🔎 http://bit.ly/longfood 
#FAQsâť“ "If #agribusiness-as-usual will lead to a dystopian future, does that mean that all private companies are part of the problem?"

Simply, no. All manner of sustainable #businesses are key participants in a Long Food Movement...

For example...🔎 http://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/FAQs_LongFoodMovement_EN.pdf
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