将农业从粮食安全任务中解放出来

The state of food security is achieved if no one has to worry whether or how they can acquire—typi- cally purchase—healthy and nutritious meals. In theory, food security could be addressed from two sides: increasing households’ purchasing power or lowering food prices. However, in practice, food insecurity is a by-product of prevailing political and economic systems. Ag- riculture produces more calories and nutrients than needed to feed humanity, so it is fundamentally an issue of distribu- tive justice, where geography, education, ethnicity, gender, and other mechanisms of marginalization determine one’s food security—through access to wealth. Yet humanity has failed to eliminate poverty and instead of addressing socioeconomic causes of food insecurity, agricultural research and practice are called upon to compensate. …