Just Food TransitioN NETWORK
Demanding a shift from industrial animal production to equitable, humane and sustainable food systems.
WHAT WE'RE ADVOCATING FOR
The global system of industrial animal production, including industrial fishing and intensive aquaculture, favours high-quantity, low-quality meat, dairy, eggs and seafood and maximises corporate profits at the expense of workers, local communities, women, animals, public health and the planet. This system is fundamentally inequitable, inefficient, financially flawed and environmentally unsustainable.
Civil society organisations are uniting around a common vision of food system transformation from seed to fork that protects and empowers smallholders, pastoralists, peasants, fisherfolks, farmers currently in the industrial systems, farm and food chain workers, women, Indigenous, youth, people of color, and other marginalised communities and makes a livable future on our planet possible.
The future we advocate for is a phaseout of industrial animal agriculture, fishing and aquaculture through a just transition to a climate-resilient, locally and democratically governed food system that mitigates greenhouse gas emissions, promotes biodiversity, protects animal welfare, empowers workers, and advances food sovereignty that fulfils food security.
TO ACHIEVE THE TRANSITION, WE MUST:
- Strengthen food system governance: We must challenge the dominance of the food system by multinational corporations and put policies in place to foster transparency, prevent undue influence over policy processes, and hold them accountable for their social and environmental impacts. At the same time, we should support environmentally and socially responsible companies and protect and elevate traditional and local food systems.
- Promote agroecological practices: A just transition necessitates the embracing of agroecology to promote human rights, environmental protection and animal welfare, and to ensure food sovereignty meets food security needs while providing dignified and sustainable livelihoods. This includes the recognition of Indigenous Peoples, women and other marginalised groups’ land rights.
- Shift towards diets within planetary and social boundaries: High-income countries with high per capita consumption of animal-based products must transition to plant-rich diets with reduced meat and dairy to stay within planetary and social boundaries. This shift will benefit public health and free up land and resources to support diversified agroecological production systems.
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ABOUT THE WHITE PAPER
The Just Transition from Industrial Animal Production to Equitable, Humane and Sustainable Food Systems white paper and roadmap was launched in 2024 at Climate Week NYC. It was created to share a unified vision for a global food system where corporate control is dismantled in favor of local systems that centre workers, farmers, Indigenous peoples, women, youth, and other marginalized producers while enhancing food sovereignty, public health, animal welfare, and environmental protection. The roadmap includes more than 100 policy recommendations to reduce food and agriculture emissions, harm, and inequity.
To be true to the principle of Just Transition, the white paper and roadmap were developed through extensive consultation amongst frontline communities and impacted groups with over 120 individuals representing 72 organisations from youth, women, farmer, and worker constituencies across 35 countries. Their feedback and voices are reflected in the final paper.
This is a global framework to guide the development of local roadmaps tailored to regional contexts, cultural sensitivities, and community-based solutions. The paper has been endorsed by civil society organisations around the world and is being used as an advocacy tool at the local, regional, national and international level.
From the Global Just Transition Food Network emerged local networks in different parts of the world and count over 100 organisations and we keep growing.
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