Sustainable Food Systems: An Agenda for Climate-risked Times

October 24, 2025

Our existing food systems — the way we produce, distribute and consume food — are not really working well, either for farmers’ livelihoods or consumers’ health and nutrition; they are also adding toxicity to the environment and the planet’s ecological health. The crisis has become wider and deeper in the present climate-risked times.

The solutions need to be at scale and holistic. The agro ecological farming movement, which is sustainable but slow and sporadic, needs scaling up to enable a substantial solution. This book brings together several critical and interconnected aspects which can lead to sustainability in our food systems — from soil health to crop insurance, from voluntary carbon markets to weather forecasting and agro-weather advisories, and from GHG emissions from livestock to encouraging resilient breeds in poultry farming. The book offers an understanding of where we stand and what are the key gaps, challenges and possibilities across each aspect, and sets an agenda for future action that can help our farmers, people, environment and the climate.