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Covid 19 has put the question of globalised supply chains back on the table. There is a broad consensus within Asian and European social movements that supply chains need to be shortened significantly in the food sector in order to provide sustainable food options for consumers, to flexibly adapt production to local circumstances and make them less crisis-prone, and contribute to less carbon emissions. But the food market is already so entangled that producers are often highly dependent on transnational companies and need them to buy their produce. In that context, a recent report has called for a “long food movement” in order to re-create sustainable food markets with shorter supply chains until 2045. But what are the immediate steps we need to take in order to get there? We will first hear four speakers who analyse the current globalised trading system and the logic of global supply chains, and then discuss how this system can be contested from an internationalist perspective.
Our movements recognise that supply chains need to be shortened significantly in the food sector to provide sustainable food, adapt production to local circumstances, make food systems less crisis-prone and cut carbon emissions. This session analyses the current globalised trading system and logic of global supply chains, and explores how this system is being contested from an internationalist perspective.
Organisers: AEPF Cluster on Food Sovereignty & Resource Justice
