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Big Food: the good guys?
The madness of global food systems is for sure the work of global companies. But some former bad guys seem intent on doing good. The mission of the Sustainable Food Laboratory is to "accelerate the sustainable food trend from niche to mainstream so that we can ensure a healthy future for the planet and its people. We design and implement innovations that make global food systems more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable — in other words, in balance with nature and good for both producer and consumer communities". The group contains seriously large companies and, to judge by its meeting last year in New Orleans, is thinking very seriously about system-wide innovation. The Lab is also associated with the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform, centered in Europe, which has 22 members, and with Business for Social Responsibility, which has also convened a Food and Agriculture Working Group. Wal-Mart, as we have all heard, has convened value chain networks relevant to the food and agriculture sector. And a new Business Coalition for Sustainable Food is emerging in Brazil. We have not been abkle to persuade the Sustainable Food Laboratory to join us in Delhi for Doors 9, but we will be attennding their semi-annual meeting in London, 13-16 February, 2007.
Posted by John Thackara at January 25, 2007 05:44 PM
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