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Feeding the World: Sustainable Food Solutions

Join Tällberg Forum 2007 to explore questions like how to feed the world, manage the commons, allocate cropland, support small producers, promote sustainability and health, and empower family farms. Discover the transformative power of the U Theory and the importance of collective action and policy changes. Explore examples of successful interventions and join the movement for social, economic, and environmental responsibility in the food industry. Visit our blog for more information.

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Feeding the World: Sustainable Food Solutions

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  1. Food and the Planet Tällberg Forum 2007 Hal Hamilton Sustainable Food Lab photo: swiatek wojtkowiak

  2. a few questions

  3. Enough food to feed the world. How will we feed the world?

  4. How will we manage the commons?

  5. How will we allocate cropland to meet our food, feed, fuel, and fiber needs?

  6. How do we keep market forces from squeezing out the small producers?

  7. How do we make public food service a driver of sustainability and health?

  8. Is there a place for family farms?

  9. How do we turn things around?

  10. together

  11. The U theoryposits a new understanding of the world that no longer fragments the wisdom of thehead, heart, and hand.

  12. Thesuccessof an interventiondepends on the interior conditionof the intervenor. William O’Brien, former CEOHanover Insurance Company

  13. Food Lab members are encouraged to go deep to look for new solutions. let go and observe U Theory Senge Scharmer Jaworski Flowers act with new understanding retreat and reflect: allow inner knowing to emerge

  14. “To be less bad is to accept things as they are....This is the ultimate failure of the "be less bad" approach: a failure of the imagination.”

  15. Leverage points for change policy changes individual action .............. collective action shared standards demand pull supply chain improvements

  16. Green Mountain Coffee and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture some examples

  17. Major US retailer and Mayan farmers

  18. SYSCO and the IPM Institute

  19. Coalition of major cities

  20. Carrefour, Fondation Charles Leopold Meyer, and communities around Lake Victoria

  21. Unilever and Rainforest Alliance

  22. Business Call to Action • social, economic and environmental responsibility • continuous, measurable improvement • transparency • shared learning

  23. now blogging! www.sustainablefood.org aproject of the Sustainability Institute

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