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As the end of abundance becomes a daily experience in Europe, we are thinking more closely about how our food gets to the table.
Low yields, high prices and distressed communities are just some of the social and economic costs of water scarcity and extreme weather. But how and what we eat is also inseparable from identity, tradition and cultural life.
Eurozine's new hub 'Breaking Bread: Food and Water Systems Under Pressure' explores the political, social and cultural aspects of food and water across European societies, highlighting the dangers of a dry planet while picking some of the seeds for a just and sustainable food and water system to come.
Read Jessica Forsyth about flawed schemes to combat urban water shortages; Marta Sabala on the refrigerator as a status symbol; Stefano Liberty on the Po Valley crisis; Hossam Hussein talks about the reasons why water wars are not inevitable.
Coming soon: Ukraine as Europe's granary; Food preservation in Poland; Modernity and meat; History of fertilizers. And the strength of the agricultural lobby.
This series is an editorial collaboration between Eurozine and the Green European Journal supported by the European Union Parliament of the European Green Foundation, and includes contributions from across the Eurozine network of European cultural journals.
