If we get food right, we get everything right: rethinking the food system in post-COVID-19 Hawai'i

Abstract

We are facing unprecedented ecological and public health challenges driven by agriculture and the food system. We now have a choice: We can use our scientific and traditional knowledge to understand and transform the food system of Hawaii toward sustainability, climate change resilience, human health and aloha, or we can squander this opportunity only to pay dearly down the road through unfulfilled human potential, the degradation of Earth’s life support systems and immeasurable climate- and disease-related suffering and loss of life.