There's a battle of ideas & green claims over food systems | IPES-Food’s Melissa Leach
Channel: IPES-Food
Date: 2023-10-10

MEET OUR EXPERTS | Melissa Leach - IPES-Food 

There’s a battle of ideas over the future of food systems. Very loose terms like ‘nature-based solutions’ are being bandied about in international summits without clear definitions, and they’re open to being mobilized in the interests of all kinds of agendas. At worst they are a cover for green grabs that undermine people's rights and threaten the land and resources they depend on. 

We must be really careful about the use of these ambiguous terms and reject solutions that are not clearly defined.

Read more : http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/smokeandmirrors 

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