Realizing just food systems: How much biodiversity does gender equality cost?

Growing enough food for current and future human populations is a challenge requiring input from multiple perspectives. Too often, ecological approaches only minimally acknowledge current or even decades-old research on food systems. From Sen’s Nobel-prize winning work emphasizing that hunger is usually more about a lack of rights than a lack of food, to more recent findings that improvements in women’s status are twice as likely to reduce infant malnutrition as increased yield, common debates focusing on agricultural yield versus biodiversity almost completely ignore how real food systems work. What would happen if we stopped ignoring food rights?