Eating Up The Earth: How Sustainable Food Systems Shrink Our Ecological Footprint

According to Redefining Progress, our global food system, with its resource-intensive production and distribution, “is using almost half the planet’s ecological capacity and is slowly degrading our natural resource base.” Sustainable food systems offer viable opportunities to shrink humanity’s food footprint to a size the Earth can support, says the group. This briefing paper provides a clear and comprehensive look at the ecological and social impacts of conventional agriculture and food production and offers ideas on how to reduce its impact.