Never before, perhaps, has there been greater consensus that our food systems need to be radically reimagined and transformed. However, there is also much contention among those working to advance these transformations over the solutions and futures that ought to be pursued. So, while there is great opportunity to enact truly radical actions that reduce hunger, rebuild and steward biodiversity, and redress the many harms and dispossessions of colonialism and extractive development, there is also great risk that the need for rapid change will be coopted by powerful elites as a shroud for advancing technocratic agendas and gaining further control of global food systems.

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• Loring, P., (2025), "The imperative to transform global food systems", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.561)

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1. ecosystem justice
2. global food systems
3. land back
4. social justice
5. Truth and Reconciliation

Original publication: Loring, Philip. "The imperative to transform global food systems." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 8, no. 3, 2021. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.561. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.