The document discusses sustainable approaches to meeting global food needs. It raises questions around how to feed the world sustainably, manage shared resources like cropland, and support small food producers. The document advocates applying the "U Theory" to find innovative solutions through reflection and collective action. Examples are given of partnerships between organizations that have driven change through supply chain improvements, policy work, and individual and shared responsibility.

1. photo: swiatek wojtkowiak Food and the Planet Tällberg Forum 2007 Hal Hamilton Sustainable Food Lab

2. a few questions

3. Enough food to feed the world. How will we feed the world?

4. How will we manage the commons?

5. How will we allocate cropland to meet our food, feed, fuel, and fiber needs?

6. How do we keep market forces from squeezing out the small producers?

7. How do we make public food service a driver of sustainability and health?

8. Is there a place for family farms?

9. How do we turn things around?

10. together

11. The U theory posits a new understanding of the world that no longer fragments the wisdom of the head, heart, and hand .

12. The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor. William O’Brien, former CEO Hanover Insurance Company

13. let go and observe retreat and reflect: allow inner knowing to emerge act with new understanding U Theory Senge Scharmer Jaworski Flowers Food Lab members are encouraged to go deep to look for new solutions.

14. “ To be less bad is to accept things as they are....This is the ultimate failure of the "be less bad" approach: a failure of the imagination .”

15. supply chain improvements demand pull shared standards policy changes individual action .............. collective action Leverage points for change

16. Green Mountain Coffee and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture some examples

17. Major US retailer and Mayan farmers

18. SYSCO and the IPM Institute

19. Coalition of major cities

20. Carrefour, Fondation Charles Leopold Meyer, and communities around Lake Victoria

21. Unilever and Rainforest Alliance

23. www.sustainablefood.org a project of the Sustainability Institute now blogging!