Our food systems are broken. Land rights can transform them
The corporate-controlled food system causes up to 40% of total global emissions,
in large part due to large-scale agriculture and livestock production. Industrial agriculture alone costs the environment 3 trillion dollars a year, having caused massive deforestation, water scarcities, biodiversity loss and soil depletion.
It also entrenches inequality: The largest 1% of farms operate more than 70% of farmland, while over 80% smallholdings of less than two hectares are excluded from hugely profitable global food chains.
It's time to put it back in the hands of the people who live on and from the land.
Watch: How One South African farmer is transforming her local food system
Our Impact on the issue
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Platforms engaged
ILC Is Engaging in food systems solutions in 3 big ways:
1.Being part of the Champions Network
As one of fifty Champions, ILC Secretariat Director, Michael Taylor is committed to using every opportunity to amplify the voices of small scale producers from within the network and promote a human rights approach for a process that does indeed hold the possibility to be transformative.
For more information, please contact Michael Taylor.
2.Action Track 4: advancing equitable livelihoods
ILC is working on ‘game changing and systemic’ solutions' under Action Track 4. As part of this work, the ILC is ensuring that equitable access to land and secure tenure rights is essential to building sustainable food systems for people who depend on and from the land.
For more information, please contact Cristina Cambiaghi.
3.Co-leading a series of independent dialogues
While we work together to transform the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food, the ILC has partnered with a group of concerned actors to co-lead a series of Independent Dialogues ahead of the Food Systems Summit. The Dialogues will hear from women and men, family farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, fisherfolk, and youth and will promote the centrality of land rights in building sustainable food systems.
For more information, please contact Rukshana Nanayakkara.
Behind the headlines
Tackling the issue
FARMERS, PEASANTS & FOREST DWELLERS
LOCALLY-MANAGED ECOSYSTEMS
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
YOUTH
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More resources from the Learning Hub
Learning is central to ILC as an alliance of peers who work together under a set of common commitments to people-centred land governance. Learning supports ILC wider efforts of shifting power into the hands of people whose lives depend on land: opportunities need to work for people’s organisations, women and youth, and be experiential as much as possible. Learning is also a means to building and sustaining diverse partnerships.
ILC members tell us what strong food systems mean to them. Can you spot any of them?
U.N. Food Systems Champions Discuss the Hidden Costs of the Food System
12 Mars 2021
En savoir plusPrácticas agroecológicas para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria de familias de Centroamérica
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En savoir plusSharing abundance: Recipes from Indigenous and Community Lands
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