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Reflections on complex systems (Leroy 2023-2024)
- Why this website; what does it hope to achieve?
- What are complex systems, and why do we need to approach them carefully?
- Why is the food system a complex system, and what does that mean for policy?
- What is eco-utopianism, how widespread is it, and how could it harm the food system?
- Why is human health a complex system too, and how is it harmed by misguided policies?
- What are the true needs of human communities, and how do they evolve?
- Why is there currently a mismatch between needs and (food) system reality?
- How can we maximize our chances of a sustainable and healthy future food system?
- Activist tactics and the discrediting of scientists (Leroy et al. 2023)
- Why the food system debate is political (and we all need to take sides)? (Leroy 2024)
- The answer is whole foods (Kolby 2021)
