UN Summit Discusses San Antonio's Unsustainable Food Systems and Response by Wallis Monday After a summer filled with events, the
hungry. According to the Global Hunger
United Nations will host a Food Systems
Index, at least 690 million people are
Summit this fall in New York City. Aimed at
undernourished globally. The San Antonio
creating action-plans for a sustainable
Food Bank reports that in Bexar County,
future, the topics range from nutrition to
one in four children are food insecure. The
agriculture to world poverty. Strong food
UN has recognized that, in a quest for a
systems are a key to achieving the UN’s
sustainable future, environmentalism must
Sustainable Development Goals by 2030,
include those living in poverty. In doing so,
and global and local governments are taking
the organization has invited local
action. Food systems are described as the
communities worldwide to assess for
“constellation of activities involved in
themselves how sustainability can move
producing, processing, transporting and
forward. The local generation of guidelines
consuming food." But what does this mean
for sustainability is a crucial component of
for our community?
the UN’s agenda for their fall summit. And so, like many cities across the globe and the
In the United States, much of the
country, San Antonio held a Food Systems
conversation around sustainable
Summit of their own, organized by
development leaves out the most vulnerable
Gardopia Gardens and the City of San
communities who are most likely to go
Antonio. On May 22nd, over seventy .
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