3rd AESOP Sustainable Food Planning

摘要

The very nature of humanity's global existence focuses on the production, distribution and availability of food (Flannery and Mincyte, 2010; Inglis and Gimlin, 2009). The importance of viable sustainable food systems is a challenge facing governments across the world, from developed nations to developing nations; the very notion of food often dominates the global political agenda, generating conflicts, creating crisis and causing dilemmas. There is a risk of strategic food concerns increasing over the coming years; with fossil fuels dwindling and populations rising, the need to source food sustainably is an ever important concern in our daily lives (Steel, 2009; Wekerle 2004; Wiskerke and Viljoen, 2012).