Resilience Food Stories is increasing societal awareness about the extraordinary actions and possibilities of producing our food healthier, safer, more productive and more resilient worldwide.
Everyone in the food chain, from farmers, growers, agronomists and governments to retailers, chefs and food lovers can contribute to the security of our food supplies.
By informing a broad public we make a first stap in cultivating leaders who can implement change at a community level and within the key sectors of agriculture and food production.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) had made an alarming connection between the climate crisis, the disastrous loss of biodiversity, the crisis in the food system, poverty in
farming and soil exhaustion, all of it resulting in both undernourishment and an epidemic of lifestyle diseases. It’s out of that awareness of urgency that this project emerged. Here is one quote that makes the point forcefully:
The agrifood systems that encompass the journey of food from farm to table and beyond touch every aspect of our lives and reach every corner of the planet. Yet instead of harnessing their immense potential for positive impact, we are letting agrifood systems wreak havoc on our climate and environment. Currently, agrifood systems account for more than a quarter of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, 90 percent of global deforestation and 70 percent of water use globally, and are the single greatest cause of terrestrial biodiversity loss. We lose or waste enough food to feed 1.3 billion hungry people every year. It does not have to be this way. Transforming agrifood systems can – and must – be a central part of the global climate solution.
Food and Agriculture Organization of theUnited Nations (FAO), Rome 2023
Farming is a culture, a way of living together with nature. We saw that nature-inclusive agriculture is connected – all over the world and in its different forms – with the regeneration of farming communities. Consciousness of local history, the strengthening of education and local industry, economic prospects for young farmers and the preservation of the natural richness of the cultivated landscape – all of this turned out to be part of the same story. We want to tell our hope-filled and admirable stories far and wide, to get people of all descriptions, young and old, involved. To show that sustainable agriculture offers a realistic future, precisely because of the application of new scientific insights and technology, and through collaboration with those of like mind on a global scale. We hope that the working method we have chosen conveys the fact that for all those involved this is also about the beauty of nature, about a satisfying, inspired connection with work and the landscape. And about historical consciousness, and the social and cultural richness that is so clearly at stake.