Food System Sectors and Areas of Focus

by Jon Ramer

1. Ecosystem Services

2. 1. Labor

2.1. Child Labor

2.2. Living Wages

2.3. Sustainable Livelihoods

2.4. Worker Rights

3. 2. Public Health

3.1. Biotechnology

3.2. Environmental Health

3.3. Food and Nourishment

3.4. Food Literacy

3.5. Green Hospital Movement

3.6. Green Schools

3.7. Malnutrition, Diet, Disease, and Education

3.8. Poverty Alleviation

3.9. Public Health

3.10. Sanitation

4. 3. Funders

4.1. Philanthropy

5. 4. Resources & Environment

5.1. Composting

5.2. Domesticated Plant Conservation

5.3. Farm Ecosystem Management

5.4. Inland Aquatic Ecosystems

5.5. Land Stewardship

5.6. Soil Conservation & Management

5.7. Water Conservation and Management

5.8. Wetlands

5.9. Wildlife Management

6. 5. Animal Welfare

6.1. Animal Welfare and Rights

6.2. Artiodactyls

6.3. Birds

6.4. Domesticated Animal Diversity

6.5. Global Beef Industry

6.6. Livestock in Developing Nations

6.7. Mollusks and Crustaceans

6.8. Mycology

7. 6. Research

7.1. Agroecology

7.2. Biodiversity

7.3. Biological Control

7.4. Conservation Biology

7.5. Domesticated Plant Conservation

7.6. Endocrine Disruptors

7.7. Energy Flow in Ecosystems

7.8. Environmental Toxicology

7.9. Human Population Growth and Impacts

7.10. Industrial Ecology

7.11. Plant Ecology

7.12. Pollination Ecology

7.13. Soil Conservation and Management

7.14. Soil Ecology

8. 7. Rural Communities

8.1. Fair Trade

8.2. Land Tenure

8.3. Rural Development

8.4. Rural Farming Communities

9. 8. Business Enterprises

9.1. Corporate Ethics

9.2. Ecosystem Services

10. 9. Coastal Communities

10.1. Coastal and Marine Human Impacts

10.2. Coastal and Marine Invasive Species

10.3. Sustainable Fishing

11. 10. Food Producers

11.1. Agroforestry

11.2. Aquaculture

11.3. Fire Ecology

11.4. Inland Aquatic Ecosystems

11.5. Organic Farming

11.6. Pesticides

11.7. Plantations

11.8. Precision Farming

11.9. Seed Conservation

11.10. Sustainable Agriculture

11.11. Sustainable Livestock Husbandry

11.12. World Marine Fisheries

11.13. Sustainable Fishing

12. 11. Food Culture

12.1. Ethnobotany

12.1.1. http://www.wiserearth.org/aof/674/

12.2. Food Supply

12.2.1. http://www.wiserearth.org/aof/65/

12.3. Gardening

12.3.1. http://www.wiserearth.org/aof/196/

12.4. Ecolabeling and Certification

12.4.1. http://www.wiserearth.org/aof/137/

12.5. Sustainable Communities

12.6. Urban Revitalization

12.7. Consumption and Green Consumers

13. 12. Government & Institutions

13.1. Agricultural Policy

13.2. Biological Patents

13.3. Coastal and Marine Law and Policy

13.4. Conservation and Recreation

13.5. Conservation and the Commons

13.6. Conservation Policy

13.7. Food Aid

13.8. Fiscal Policies, Institutions and Taxation

13.9. Global Food Supply and Sustainability

13.9.1. Consumption and Green Consumers

13.9.1.1. http://www.wiserearth.org/aof/30/

13.10. Institutional Accountability

13.11. Land Reform

13.12. Water Law and Policy

14. 13. Food Security

14.1. Human Rights and Social Justice

14.2. Hunger and Food Security

14.3. Local Food Systems

14.4. Poverty Eradication

15. New node