The AnthroFood 2050 Manifesto: Anthropological Perspectives on the Future of Food

The AnthroFood 2050 Manifesto: Anthropological Perspectives on the Future of Food presents a critical call to action and an intellectual framework for transforming global food systems by the year 2050. Developed through a multi-year collaborative effort by the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) FoodNet—originating at a landmark international workshop at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan—this volume demonstrates that technology and market mechanisms alone cannot resolve the compounding crises of climate disruption, supply chain fragility, and food insecurity. Moving beyond traditional academic critiques, the volume argues that food is not merely biological fuel, but a relational field embedded with emotion, identity, cultural memory, and power dynamics. It highlights how systemic food insecurity is structurally produced by financialization, corporate concentration, and the marginalization of non-Western epistemologies and informal care labor.