"Traditional food systems have not been designed for sustainability at scale"

My ideal food system should be one that produces, processes and manages food while ensuring sustainability (use it for some time without causing harm to the production environment that is, its source). It is primarily about producing and implementing policies on how we produce and consume food.

Globalization can have profound effects on food systems because it increases our dependence on others for our food. Emphasis therefore should be laid on food sovereignty, given the evidence we see from the impact of the ongoing war in Ukraine where essential food prices have increased affecting the cots of living across many countries in Africa and elsewhere

Stemming from the Food Systems summit of 2021, the emphasis has been placed on how we produce and consume food by focusing discussions on equity, value-added and or generated and sustainability of the food systems among others. As an example, we can look at milk versus rice farming in Uganda. The rice farmer, due to high demand, received a relatively higher farm gate price compared to the milk farmer. But the rice farmer degrades the environment faster than the milk farmer due to unsustainable production systems in wetlands. Rice production muts therefore be better regulated hence the ban by government of wetland production of rice driving prices even higher.

It is also important to rethink how food systems works. Some negative factors such as rapid urbanization and globalization do not favor traditional food systems, with many current food systems not inclusive traditional foods production to consumption. This is because traditional food systems in general are not designed for sustainability at scale as demanded by large urban consumption.