Community based food systems
Community based food systems Authors: Gorka Díaz Merino MSc Sustainable Design Student (SD2), Aalborg University (Copenhagen) Marika Zamelek MSc Sustainable Design Student (SD2), Aalborg University (Copenhagen) In this blog post we will continue to challenge the mainstream perspective of the future from a Sustainable Transitions perspective, this time on Danish agriculture. The current Danish regime is very focused on conventional agriculture and a long supply chain of food systems and is the 3rd most polluting sector and taking around 61% of the land (Denmark’s National Inventory Report, 2020). Moreover, 75% of the agricultural space is designated for growing animal feed which significantly increases Greenhouse Gas emissions. The whole system aggravates problems like Climate Change and extensive land use. (Denmark’s Report for the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture, 2016; Hauggaard-Nielsen, 2021). In the following paragraphs we are going to discuss the typ...