3. the food system provides an essential public service and is linked to other related public services such as health care and education. Ownership of food system resources is widely and often publicly held.
System performance metricsĀ and transition targets
Summary of key policy challenges
Change areas:
Integrating food into health promotion and primary care
Integrating food into educational processes
Integrating food with Community Energy Planning and energy utilities
Integrating food into public institutions and spaces
Public research and information dissemination
Reducing corporate concentration and broadening ownership of food system resources, and public control of food resources (including land)
Reshaping the role of speculative traders and institutional investors in food markets