The global food system is owned by an ever smaller number of companies – it’s damaging our health, our communities and the planet
- Written by Liam Keenan, Assistant Professor in Economic Geography, University of Nottingham

Across the world, over 800 million people spend their days hungry. More than 2 billion have limited access to food. Yet today’s global food system produces enough to feed every person on the planet.
This imbalanced situation can be explained in part by the effects of things like natural disasters, war, fragile...