Assessing the vulnerability of Stellenbosch's food system and possibilities for a local food economy

Kelly, Candice; Schulschenk, Jess

doi:10.1080/0376835x.2011.605575

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“…Furthermore, the cost-efficiency of risk-reduction strategies must be assessed (Prater et al , 2001). Vlajic et al (2012) and Kelly and Schulschenk (2011) showed how right supply network design and risk management practices through training of employees, supplier certification, advanced decision support systems to detect disturbances fast, risk-sharing contracts can result in high profit growth for business sustainability. Blos et al (2010) developed a risk mitigation framework where the advantage to supply chain is a better ability to adapt when a disruption occurs, ensuring protection of ability to deliver competitive advantage.…”

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“…3.2.4.3 Trust to enhance collaboration. In the context of the vulnerability of Stellenbosch's food system to foreign competition, environmental uncertainty, Kelly and Schulschenk (2011) found that educating the farmers on alternative crop production and connecting farmers and consumers to support community demand will build a self-sustaining food network. Barlow (2012), in discussing the disaster response of two hospitals, emphasized the need of supplier relationship.…”

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Supply network resilience: a systematic literature review and future research

Datta

2017

IJLM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the knowledge existing in the literature on supply chain resilience for identifying the supply chain practices adopted for securing resilience in given uncertain event. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review is conducted to identify 84 conceptual and empirical studies. The research findings are synthesized in categories of uncertain events, supply chain practices and outcomes. Findings A set of propositions linking the uncertain events, mechanisms and supply chain resilience improvement is developed. It was found that the sufficient conditions for resilience under unexpected disasters are substantially different from those required for resilience against disruptions caused by internal practices or complexity. Originality/value Practitioners can benefit from the knowledge of interventions and mechanisms to improve their supply chain resilience in the face of different unpredictable situations. The contribution of this paper is twofold: first, it develops an actionable theory of supply chain resilience by developing testable propositions in the context of supply chains exposed to uncertainties resulting from unexpected disruptions, complexity of supply chains and adoption of certain internal practice; second, the paper highlights the key shortcomings of existing literature and provides opportunities for further research and improvement.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Supply Chain Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supply network resilience: a systematic literature review and future research

Datta

2017

IJLM

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100

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“…Apart from their environmental benefits (cf. fewer food miles, lower carbon footprint), another reason for pushing forward local, short food supply chains is their contribution to regional, local economies [149, [221][222][223][224][225][226][227]. This happens, inter alia, through the creation of jobs [223].…”

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Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

2021

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Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development. Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are hard to find. Therefore, the present systematic review delineated the contours of this growing research strand and analyzed how it relates to sustainability. A search performed on the Web of Science in January 2020 yielded 1389 documents, and 1289 were selected and underwent bibliometric and topical analyses. The topical analysis was informed by the SAFA (Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems) approach of FAO and structured along four dimensions viz. environment, economy, society and culture, and policy and governance. The review shows an increasing interest in AFS with an exponential increase in publications number. However, the study field is north-biased and dominated by researchers and organizations from developed countries. Moreover, the analysis suggests that while environmental aspects are sufficiently addressed, social, economic, and political ones are generally overlooked. The paper ends by providing directions for future research and listing some topics to be integrated into a comprehensive, multidisciplinary agenda addressing the multifaceted (un)sustainability of AFS. It makes the case for adopting a holistic, 4-P (planet, people, profit, policy) approach in agri-food system studies.

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Food and the City: Urban Scale Food System Governance

Haysom

2015

Urban Forum

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Food insecurity in urban areas, particularly in developing countries, is a persistent yet poorly understood phenomenon. Food security interventions have primarily focused on ensuring food availability, a focus that has resulted in predominantly production-oriented responses that presuppose a rural challenge, overlooking urban food insecurity challenges. This view generally precipitates welfarist or project-driven interventions in urban areas that are predominantly reactive, lacking strategic focus. Within the context of converging and mutually reinforcing global transitions, including the second urban transition, the food system transition and the nutrition transition, alternative urban food governance innovations are emerging. Urban food governance innovations are particularly evident in the Global North, with an emerging trend in South American cities. A gap exists in understanding food governance processes in growing South African cities, in particular how these processes intersect with a wider discourse on food system change. This paper draws on original analysis of emerging food governance trends and posits that a food lens offers opportunities to explore innovative forms of urban governance, participatory planning and citizen-driven food policy formulation.

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Assessing the vulnerability of Stellenbosch's food system and possibilities for a local food economy

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Supply network resilience: a systematic literature review and future research

Supply network resilience: a systematic literature review and future research

Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

Food and the City: Urban Scale Food System Governance

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