<p><em>Sara Gonzalez, Professor of Critical Human Geography, Joint Associate Director Urban Food Systems, GFEI, University of Leeds.
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<p>Food is a fundamental human need and yet most humans don’t have much control or power over the process of its production, distribution and selling as big corporations whose main aim is to <a href="https://www.etcgroup.org/files/files/food-barons-2022-full_sectors-final_16_sept.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">deliver profit to their shareholders</a> organize the majority of these processes at a planetary scale. One way to break this cycle is to shift the principles of the food system from a profit economy to a social and solidarity economy and to reduce as much as it is possible the gap between producers and consumers, organising the food system at a community scale. In this blogpost, I share some food initiatives that I have come across during my research leave while visiting Barcelona<a href="https://medium.com/globalfoodleeds/taking-back-the-food-system-through-the-social-and-solidarity-economy-in-barcelona-b4cc44293c76#_ftn1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">[1]</a> that are working along these lines.</p>
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