Upstream influences on the current food system
Globalisation
The current global food system faces major challenges in
being able to produce sufficient food for a growing world
population that addresses the economic, environmental
and social imperatives of sustainability. In the last four
decades, the modern industrialised food system has
been extremely successful in achieving a doubling of
world food production, which has kept pace with world
population growth(1,3). However, these increases have
not been uniform across the globe. It seems extraordinary
that there are in excess of 800 million people who go