By linking small agricultural producers to the local urban consumers, through short food chains, we can hope to both improve the incomes of the producers and improve access of consumers to fresh and nutritious foods. And by improving the knowledge of agroecological practices, we can delink the production of food from its current dependency on fossil energy, which has become unsustainable. Professor de Schutter's key task as Rapporteur on the Right to Food, in addition to researching and generating reports on the various aspects of the right to food, is to show governments that new approaches to food are not only necessary but also viable alternatives. Industry likewise needs to be shown that it can play a new and significant role by participating in alternate food systems which sustains the environment, producers, and consumers alike.