Seeking sustainable solutions for human food systems

Abstract

Sustainable food system development is the cornerstone of global human survival and development. This research briefly analyzes the challenges facing the current food system, summarizes the directions of food system transformation, expounds the role of geography in the transformation of food system, and discusses the future paths to promote the sustainable development of food system. The main conclusions are as follows: 1) The interaction of factors such as regional conflicts, climate change, slowdown in development, raging epidemics, and resource and environmental constraints pose multiple challenges to the global food system. 2) The food system should be high-quality, efficient, nutritious and healthy, green and low-carbon, inclusive and inclusive transformation. 3) Geography can provide solutions for the transformation of food systems. 4) The transformation paths of the food system includes: establishing a global food system with benefit sharing, cleaner production, and fair participation, improving the innovation capability of the food system, and establishing an effective organizational guarantee system.

Keywords

Food systems / Sustainable development / Solutions

Declaration of Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

This research was funded by Shaanxi Province’s 2022 Provincial Grain Special Project (Shaanxi Grain Reserve Safety Early Warning and Emergency Management Strategy Research), the 2022 Shaanxi Provincial Association for Science and Technology Decision-making Consulting Project (Research on the Industrial Model of Comprehensive Land Remediation in the Background of Rural Revitalization) and the Strategic Leading Special Science and Technology Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA20040202).

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