The challenges of global food security, destruction of the environment and social inequality call for a rethink in the design of our agricultural and food systems. In their latest interdisciplinary position paper, a team from the Leibniz Research Network ‘Green Food - Healthy Society’ presents the concept of ‘Sustainable and Resilient Agrifood Systems’ (SARAS) - a new systemic approach for healthy, sustainable and resilient food systems. The Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) is involved in the publication, which was published in the journal Sustainable Development, with several authors as part of the BMBF funding line ‘Agricultural Systems of the Future’ and the joint project ‘food4future - Food of the Future’.
Read the full text in German.
