Alternative discourses around the governance of food security: A case study from Ethiopia

Jiren, Tolera Senbeto; Dorresteijn, Ine; Hanspach, Jan; Schultner, Jannik; Bergsten, Arvid; Manlosa, Aisa O.; Jager, Nicolas Wilhelm; Senbeta, Feyera; Fischer, Joern

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100338

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“…Importantly, it is not only the increased susceptibility to shocks that would be unevenly distributed, but also the actual economic benefits and corresponding gains in food security. Intensification, commercialization, and specialization could benefit either richer locals or external investors because the majority of poor smallholder farmers would lack the capacity to intensify production and integrate into both domestic and global markets (Jiren et al 2020). Research elsewhere, for instance, in other parts of Ethiopia (Horne et al 2011, Rahmato 2011, in other sub-Saharan African countries (Cotula et al 2009), or in South American and Southeast Asian countries (Zoomers 2010, Visser andSpoor 2011), has indicated that few capable actors benefit from market integration whereas often, the majority of poor smallholders may suffer further deprivation.…”

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Reconciling food security and biodiversity conservation: participatory scenario planning in southwestern Ethiopia

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Hanspach²,

Schultner³

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Social-ecological systems are complex and involve uncertainties emerging from interactions between biophysical and social system components. In the face of growing complexity and uncertainty, stakeholder engagement with the future is important to proactively manoeuvre toward desirable outcomes. Focusing on the interrelated challenges of food security and biodiversity conservation, we conducted a participatory scenario planning exercise in a rural landscape in southwestern Ethiopia. We involved 35 stakeholder organizations in multiple workshops to construct causal loop diagrams, elicit critical uncertainties, and draft scenario narratives. Jointly, we developed four plausible future scenarios for the studied landscape: (1) gain over grain: local cash crops; (2) mining green gold: coffee investors; (3) coffee and conservation: a biosphere reserve; and (4) food first: intensive farming and forest protection. These scenarios differ with respect to their main social-economic dynamics as well as their food security and biodiversity outcomes. Importantly, three of the four scenarios, i.e., all except "coffee and conservation: a biosphere reserve," focused on increasing efficiency in agricultural production through intensification, specialization, and market integration. In contrast, "coffee and conservation: a biosphere reserve" was driven by agroecological production methods that support diversified livelihoods, a multifunctional landscape, maintenance of natural capital, a governance system that supports local people, and social-ecological resilience. Similar agroecological trajectories have been advocated as desirable for sustainable development in numerous other smallholder farming systems worldwide. Given fewer trade-offs and better equity outcomes, it appears that an agroecological development pathway stands a good chance of generating synergies between food security and biodiversity conservation. Pathways prioritizing agricultural efficiency, in contrast, are more likely to degrade natural capital and cause social inequity.

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Reconciling food security and biodiversity conservation: participatory scenario planning in southwestern Ethiopia

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Hanspach²,

Schultner³

et al. 2020

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“…The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that food security is achieved when all people and throughout all the time have physical, social and economic access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food, which meets their food demand, satisfies preferences, and allows them to lead an active and healthy lifestyle [22]. Food security can be analysed at various levels (individual or family security, more often referred to as household food security, national food security as well as international or global food security) [23,24]. All dimensions of food security are closely interrelated.…”

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Food Security in the Context of Liquid Biofuels Production

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A crucial factor that determines the development of production and consumption markets for biofuels is the choice of raw materials that can ensure the highest possible production efficiency, the lowest cost and the smallest emission of harmful substances to the atmosphere during all production stages. Considerations underlying the development of biofuel production have been discussed as well as the theoretical mechanisms linking the generation of biofuels to the level of production and the variability of prices of agricultural raw products. The aim of this study has been to identify the scale at which energy raw materials originating from agriculture are used for liquid biofuels production and to explore their impact on food security. The study used public statistical data (OECD-FAO and IndexMundi). The time span of the analysis was from 2005 to 2018. First-generation biofuels based on food raw materials (cereal grains, root crops, sugarcane and vegetable oils) are becoming increasingly competitive with food production recent years have been a period of the dynamic growth in production of liquid biofuels. In 2018, the global production of these substances reached 167.9 billion litres (bioethanol and biodiesel together), consuming 16.1% of maize grain, 1.7% of wheat grain, 3.3% of grain of other feed grains and 13.5% of vegetable oil.

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“…Approaches to smallholder commercialization, agroecology and sustainability, the local economy and equity and market liberalization can be achieved by keeping the food security programs oriented to the welfare of smallholder households (Jiren et al, 2020). However, the potential tradeoff between local diversity and the efficiency of global resources needs to be better understood (Sellberg et al, 2020).…”

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Food Diversification: Strengthening Strategic Efforts to Reduce Social Inequality through Sustainable Food Security Development in Indonesia

Rahmanto

Purnomo

Kasiwi

2020

Caraka Tani J. Sustain. Agric.

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<span>Potential</span><span lang="EN-US"> food resources can be utilized through food diversification as a part of the government's efforts to minimize socio-economic inequality with sustainable food security development program. The purpose of this study was to observe the role of food diversification in reducing social inequality through sustainable food security development. This study uses descriptive qualitative methods with secondary data collection techniques which include data references as well as documentation related to food security development. The results showed that in Indonesia, food diversification program has an impact on increasing income, household resilience and welfare with a decrease in the number of the rural poor population of 4.7% (from 16.31 people to 15.54 people). It was positively correlated with the increase in farmers' income by (IDR) 30.37 million per capita increase (4.47%). Then, followed by the level of food security in the district area reached 80.53% (335 regions) and for urban areas amounted to 92.85% (91 regions). National food security can be achieved through maximizing the potential use of food resources at the regional level, by diversifying food based on local wisdom and optimally local resources. It can be concluded that food diversification is a policy that can be used by the government to increase community economic income and reduce poverty and social inequality.</span>

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Alternative discourses around the governance of food security: A case study from Ethiopia

Cited by 28 publications

References 25 publications

Reconciling food security and biodiversity conservation: participatory scenario planning in southwestern Ethiopia

Reconciling food security and biodiversity conservation: participatory scenario planning in southwestern Ethiopia

Food Security in the Context of Liquid Biofuels Production

Food Diversification: Strengthening Strategic Efforts to Reduce Social Inequality through Sustainable Food Security Development in Indonesia

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