المنتدى العالمي المعني بالأمن الغذائي والتغذية

This scoping report is a most welcome development and I commend FAO on commssioning it. I would encourage the authors to focus primarily on what agro-ecology can offer in those places where the industrial food system is most obviously failing or absent: in areas of food shortage; in areas where land has been badly damaged or degraded; in urban and and peri-urban areas; in places where subsistence smallholding remains dominant; and in places where climate change seriously theatens current production methods. Even in the UK, a country where inudstrial farming is economically successful and productive, vast areas of uplands (about one third of the country) are no longer agriculturally productive or profitable; a new model of food production is needed here. It is in those places where the industrial food system is not delivering that there is the most potential for agroecology to contribute to FNS.