Circular Economy for food

Over the last fifty years, food production and consumption methods have generated significant impacts on ecosystems and human communities. Globalized food chains, increasingly intricate and standardized, have interrupted many of the relationships between ecological units that traditionally made food production the result of a healthy relationship with nature. This excessively predatory economic approach has exceeded planetary and social limits, jeopardizing our “common home”, the shared environment. The gradual and decades-long erosion of natural capital, resulting from the linear economic paradigm, undermines the stability of cultural capital, hindering interpersonal dialogue and compromising the foundations of sustainable development. In this context, underlining the existence of interconnected systems, in which humanity should act as a non-invasive part, recalls the importance of turning to the food sector to promote a change in the economic-social paradigm in a circular way. This implies a return to attention to communities, to the quality of relationships and the substance of behaviors, with the aim of avoiding compromising relationships with the best supplier of raw materials known to mankind: nature.