Research Guides: Nutrition & Health : US Food System Concerns

US Food System Concerns

The simple fact that the number of hungry people in the world is increasing while we waste tons food means the food system has serious flaws. -Amy Schmidt of Producer's Stories

“Global food systems are broken – and billions of people are paying the price.” This is a recent tweet from UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres in July 2023.

US Food System Factsheet - From the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan
Food System Primer - Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
9 Ways the Food Systems are Failing Humanity - from the UN Environment Programme
Our Food System Is Broken & It’s Time to Change It - from Producer's Stories

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Food, Inc. : how industrial food is making us sicker, fatter and poorer -- and what you can do about it
Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructs the corporate food industry in America.
PBS Newshour - The Future of Food
The Future of Food series from PBS NewsHour Weekend and Mark Bittman, former New York Times food writer and bestselling author, features reports about global efforts to produce enough food sustainably and ethically for a growing population.