What defines a resilient food economy?

A resilient food economy will ensure planetary health and secure social justice for all those who work in it or are affected by it.4 Critically, this means that it will need to be aligned with the urgent need to address the climate and nature emergency in ways that build environmental and economic resilience (including improved soil health), social justice, food security and sovereignty, and public health. A resilient food economy will therefore:

• Uphold social justice and food security, including protecting Indigenous Peoples’ lands and the rights of local communities and ensuring a healthy environment both today and for future generations; provide adequate support domestically and globally for farmers and labourers throughout the supply chain who are currently dependent on the industrial food economy for their income, enabling them to transition to planet-friendly forms of farming or other forms of employment; and ensure the right of all people to a healthy (ideally plantrich) diet, produced by ecologically sound and sustainable methods. • Minimise its environmental footprint and maximise environmental health at farm, community, national and global levels, for example through:

Improved biodiversity, soil health and clean water Circular systems involving high levels of nutrient recycling (including of food waste) and minimal external inputs of fertilisers and agrochemicals Smarter food production, including using land for food, not feed An end to factory farming and industrial meat production Shorter supply chains to reduce GHG emissions from transport and storage (while fostering community-level food economies).

• Dramatically reduce livestock production and global trade in commodities such as palm oil, pulp and wood chips, and soya, so as to ensure that agricultural land is used to produce food for direct human consumption, not animal feed or energy crops. This will free up land for restoration and regeneration of natural habitats and facilitate a shift to local and agro-ecological production with which nature can coexist – both measures that will maximise biodiversity benefits and carbon uptake and storage while reducing GHG emissions and pollution.

• Integrate animal agriculture into a diverse farming system in which stocking densities and models of husbandry respect animal welfare and contribute to nature conservation and ecosystem restoration.