Food system definition

Food system means all processes, infrastructure and persons involved in feeding a population, including growing, harvesting, collecting, processing, manufacturing, packaging, transporting, marketing, selling, consuming and disposing of food and food-related items in the State. [PL 2021, c. 483, Pt. KK, §2 (NEW).]
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Food system means the entire range of actors and their activities involved in the production, aggregation, processing, distribution, trade, consumption and disposal (loss or waste) of food that originate from agriculture (including livestock), forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, and food industries, and the broader economic, societal, and natural environments in which they are embedded.
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Examples of Food system in a sentence

  • Awardee agrees to publicly disclose information about the awarded project and the award of this grant on its website and refer in any and all of its public facing communication about the project to the Seeding The Future Global Food system Challenge and use the Seeding the Future Logo.

  • Food system ontology, semantics and informatics standardisation within such Bayesian dynamic nets has additional benefit here.

  • I was also de facto lead on scenarios for the Global Food and Farming Futures project, producing two published reports – ‘Global Food and Farming Futures Challenge Report 4: Food system scenarios and modelling’ and ‘Managing uncertainty: a review of food system scenarios and models’.

  • Food system transformation is challenging and encompasses a huge variety of interrelated and sometimes conflicting issues, processes, domains and actors.

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