Re-food: Exploring the troubled food system of Aotearoa New Zealand

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In Re-food, Emily King advocates for a food systems approach to help the troubled food networks of Aotearoa New Zealand one that takes into account the processes from the farm to the family table. She looks at the best ways forward to address challenges we face with soils, waterways, climate change, food waste, packaging, unhealthy diets, and a lack of access to food. Written in three parts Grow, Make and Nourish Re-food traverses the full food system and unpacks its issues along the way while providing timely and relevant ideas and inspiration for readers to solve these problems themselves. It offers tools, insights and mindset changes that chart a path towards a healthier, more sustainable food future, one which incorporates Te Ao Mori and our strengths as a top-quality food-producing nation.

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Emily King offers us power. She lays out with engaging, fast-paced prose why and how our food choices matter. As King makes the connections, our food system is no longer an abstraction. We see how plant-and-planet-centered farming and eating enhance our own wellbeing and that of our fellow Earthlings, all while confronting the climate emergency and restoring the Earth. What a deal! Thank you, Emily! FRANCES MOORE LAPP, author or co-author of 20 books on food, hunger and democracy, beginning with her 3-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet

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Emily King is an internationally recognised thought leader in food systems change. Environmental lawyer turned advocate, Emily has more than a decades experience working in and researching food systems. Its a journey thats taken her from investigating seed practices in Cuba to running a climate change adaptation forum focusing on resilient urban food in Germany, hunting out ways to change the food system. Emily created Spira in 2017 to help more businesses and organisations throughout Aotearoa contribute to positive fixes in the food system. Shes helped councils, industry, government and numerous community groups come up with leading answers to our most pressing food systems challenges.