Food and the Planet – Sustainable Food Lab

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Food and the PlanetTällberg Forum 2007

Hal Hamilton Sustainable Food Lab

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2000: 6 billion people2050: 9.2 billion people

825 million people hungry

soil degradation

climate change

fisheries lossobesity & diabetes

loss of farmswater issues

Enough food to feed the world.How will we feed the world?a few questions

How will we manage the commons?

How will we allocate cropland to meet our food, feed, fuel, and fiber needs?

How do we keep market forces from squeezing out the small producers?

How do we make public food service a driver of sustainability and health?

Is there a place for family farms?

How do we turn things around?

together

The U theory posits a new understanding of the

world that no longer fragments the wisdom

of the head, heart, and hand.

The success of an intervention

depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.

William O’Brien, former CEOHanover Insurance Company

let go and observe

retreat and reflect: allow inner knowing to emerge

act with new understanding

U TheorySenge

ScharmerJaworskiFlowers

Food Lab members are encouraged to go deep to look for new solutions.

“To be less bad is to accept things as they are....This is the ultimate failure of the "be less bad"

approach: a failure of the imagination.”

supply chain improvements

demand pull

shared standards

policy changes

individual a

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Leverage points for change

Green Mountain Coffee and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture

some examples

Major US retailer and Mayan farmers

SYSCO and the IPM Institute

Coalition of major cities

Carrefour, Fondation Charles Leopold Meyer, and communities around Lake Victoria

Unilever and Rainforest Alliance

Business Call to Action

• social, economic and environmental responsibility

• continuous, measurable improvement

• transparency

• shared learning

www.sustainablefood.org

a project of the Sustainability Institute

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