10.2190/57C8-WV79-63W9-2E52 57C8WV7963W92E52 6 Food Systems and Society—The Systems Evolution 177 193 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 57C8WV7963W92E52.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=57C8WV7963W92E52 2 Ranen Sen Devashis Chatterjee Manab N. Paul Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado Geological Survey of India, Calcutta, India Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India ‘Food Systems and Society’ implies a system in which society is composed primarily of food producing and non-food producing sectors. Both the sectors converge and give rise to food consuming and non-food consuming populations—a systems mix in any particular natural environment. These sectors together form the main objective of the present study in relation to the total food environment.