241 / The emergence of ‘the global standard diet’
Currently, the global food system accounts for nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions, and land use for livestock production has been a devastating force of deforestation, using up 80 percent of global farmland to provide fewer than 20 percent of the calories consumed globally.
Mold • Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
No global supply networks affect more people than those for food. Food production and distribution is the world’s largest industry, employing over a billion people. For most of those living in wealthy northern countries, global food systems seem to be working fine. After all, a consumer in New York or Paris can buy a cantaloupe in the middle of win
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No global supply networks affect more people than those for food. Food production and distribution is the world’s largest industry, employing over a billion people. For most of those living in wealthy northern countries, global food systems seem to be working fine. After all, a consumer in New York or Paris can buy a cantaloupe in the middle of win
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Let us try a thought experiment which might make this clearer. In order to calculate the rate of economic growth, it is necessary to treat all of the activities in which money is handed over as essentially interchangeable. According to the World Bank, agriculture currently makes up around 4% of global GDP. Seen in these terms, the growing of food i
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