COMMENT | Hunger and poor nutrition do not happen by accident. They are often the result of how our food system is designed.

When food production focuses only on volume, profit and speed, the people who suffer first are always the same. They are the poor, small farmers and urban families struggling to stretch their income each month.

Today, food, agriculture and nutrition are treated as separate issues. One ministry talks about output. Another talks about prices. Another talks about health. But in reality, these elements are inseparable.

What we grow, how we grow it and who controls the inputs determine whether food is affordable, nutritious and accessible to the rakyat.

Industrial agriculture has increased production, but it has also...