Covid-19 has highlighted the systemic vulnerabilities in the Swedish and planetary food systems, while creating the political economy for deep transformation. This paper seeks to outline the increasingly critical relationship between food and the healthy development of our minds and bodies, and therefore the future prosperity of our economies and societies. — Covid-19 is increasingly forcing us to recognise that food plays a central role in the human health defense systems [1]. Yet our health treatment systems are trailing behind, with nutrition left out of governments’ key recommendations announced during the Covid-19 pandemic [image 1].

Covid-19 has highlighted the systemic vulnerabilities in the Swedish and planetary food systems, while creating the political economy for deep transformation. This paper seeks to outline the increasingly critical relationship between food and the healthy development of our minds and bodies, and therefore the future prosperity of our economies and societies. — Covid-19 is increasingly forcing us to recognise that food plays a central role in the human health defense systems [1]. Yet our health treatment systems are trailing behind, with nutrition left out of governments’ key recommendations announced during the Covid-19 pandemic [image 1].

This is the seventh in a series of DM notes, which share information from DM Downloads — our regular internal learning sessions. The aim is to make our practice more legible, for us as well as for you. DM Note #7 reflects upon our approach to visualising and communicating complexity…

How three Swedish food actors coped during Covid-19 This is a series of two blog posts by Rapid Transition Lab, a collaboration between Stockholm Resilience Center, Dark Matter Labs, and Vinnova. The first one presents the findings from interviews with three Swedish food system actors. …

How three Swedish food actors coped during Covid-19 This is a series of two blog posts by Rapid Transition Lab, a collaboration between Stockholm Resilience Center, Dark Matter Labs and Vinnova. In this first one presents the findings from interviews with three Swedish food system actors. The second post presents…

In a post-pandemic world, food is not just our biggest challenge, but also our biggest opportunity for sustainable change. The ways that food is produced, distributed and consumed have major negative impacts on people and the planet. Food production is the largest human pressure on Earth, causing a mass extinction…

This is part of a series of Weeknotes as part of our TransCap x CivicValue x CommCap exploration. We have republished it here in our Provocations to spark a conversation on how we can rethink value flows in neighbourhood-level climate transitions. Neighbourhoods are facing an imminent need to transition for…

This is the sixth in a series of DM notes, in which we write about insights from our work on the ground, following internal learning sessions called DM Downloads that are organized every two weeks or so. The aim is to make our practice more legible, for us as well…

Our emerging operating logic and how it feels This piece was authored by a member of the Dark Matter Labs team based in the UK as part of the #BeyondtheRules project and, as such, is written in British English and may have particular references to contexts in the UK. This blog was written in September 2021 and reflects…