TRANSFORMING FOOD
& FARMING THROUGH
COMMUNITY-LED
TRADE.
THE PROBLEM
Currently the supermarkets and agri-business
control our food. The centralized and
industrialized system they have developed
has provided us with abundance of cheap
food but at enormous cost to the
environment and communities. As at 2010
11% of the food we consume is imported
and this uses up foreign exchange.
Our current food and farming system requires
the use of fossil fuels – mainly oil and gas – in
the form of artificial fertilizers and pesticides,
in on-farm machinery and in the energy
required to process that food and get it from
the farm to our plates.
Our current food system also accounts for at
least 30% of global greenhouse gas
emissions and it’s dependence on cheap
fossil fuels makes it extremely vulnerable to
fluctuations in the supply and price of oil and
gas.