World’s $10 Trillion Food System Eyes a Covid-Era Reboot
A worker carries tomatoes during harvest at a farm in Mexico on Jan. 10.
Photographer: Jeoffrey Guillemard/Bloomberg“Food systems” is one of those abstractions that for years has been largely confined to academic and policy-making circles, but in the time of Covid-19 it’s renewed a very real debate around hunger and poverty.
What essentially is a $10 trillion complex web of people and processes that ensure food travels from farm to fork is undergoing its greatest scrutiny yet. How to transform it has been a subject of all three food-focused panels at this year’s virtual Davos confab.