food system
Defined in 1 dictionary — U.S. Code
United States Code
22 U.S.C. § 9303 — in this chapter
The term "food system" means the intact or whole unit made up of interrelated components of people, behaviors, relationships, and material goods that interact in the production, processing, packaging, transporting, trade, marketing, consumption, and use of food, feed, and fiber through aquaculture, farming, wild fisheries, forestry, and pastoralism that operates within and is influenced by social, political, economic, and environmental contexts.