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/