What is Our Current Food System?

 Our food system traces its roots back about 12,000 years

when humans first discovered farming.

 

The goal was simple: feed our growing population to prevent FAMINE

 

A brutal challenge that caused many societies

 to collapse over the centuries.

 

In the last 500 years, this system has evolved significantly

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We've gone from a global hunger rate of around 70%

to less than 9% today.

 

In Canada, that rate is even lower, sitting at 4%.

 

an AMAZING ACCOMPLISMENT but we now face a NEW challenge in Canada.

 

Food Insecurity (15.9%)

 

A broader issue where people worry food will run out or cannot consistently afford healthy meals.

 

For now, the original GLOBAL system has done what it was designed to do.

It has saved MILLIONS of lives over 12,000 years.

 

Now it’s our responsibility to upgrade the system

to work on the LOCAL scale.