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In this 2020 AFHVS Presidential Address, Molly Anderson suggests that we must push beyond the boundaries imposed by our training, institutional reward systems, political system and comfort zones in order to solve global challenges. She lists five challenges facing those who are trying to build more sustainable food systems: overcoming the technocratic and productivist approach of industrial agriculture, avoiding future pandemics, restoring degraded and depleted systems and resources, remaining united as a movement while creating collaborations with other movements, and redistributing power across food system actors so that everyone can realize their human rights, including the right to food. She describes three ways that she has found to be effective in pushing beyond boundaries: international collaborations, interactions with global social movements, and anti-racist work. She links these "moments" of opportunity back to the five challenges, and concludes with advice to young scholars.
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has exacerbated pre-existing inequities in access to healthy food and land. Programs and policies that eradicate food insecurity by empowering people with agency and dignity instead of providing handouts are essential. Bringing food into the commons can be one strategy to improve food security, equitable land ownership, and land stewardship.
