Follow the Food
The global food system is struggling to provide enough and healthy food within planetary boundaries, while also struggling with issues of equity, fairness, food waste and lack of fair pricing for local producers. This Incubator will use a ‘Follow the Food’ approach to trace the workings of the global food systems: agricultural production, processing, trading, and consumption of foods. One of the recent tools to mitigate the impact of the global food system is Geographical Indications (GIs), an institutional (legal and political) tool promoted as preserving quality, heritage and fostering sustainability. GIs will be used as a lens to address the sustainability and equity challenges of global food systems, while keeping in mind that they may also be a case of sustainability-washing.