Food politics and development

Leach, Melissa; Nisbett, Nicholas; Cabral, Lídia; Harris, Jody; Hossain, Naomi; Thompson, John

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105024

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“…Transitions include political, socio-cultural, economic, environmental and technological shifts in rules, practices, institutions and values, leading to more sustainable modes of production and consumption (Marsden 2013;Pitt and Jones 2016). To examine sustainable transitions, a multi-level perspective has been used, to consider how dynamic processes and interactions across scales can support whole-system transformative change (Geels 2010;Smith et al 2010), but also what issues of power relations drive changes or establish 'lock-ins' (IPES-Food 2018; Leach et al 2020). Some transitions begin at a small scale, a 'niche' or protected space in which farmer cooperatives, social movements, businesses, local government or other groups 13.…”

Section: Transitions To More Sustainable Food Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agroecological principles and elements and their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems. A review

Wezel

Herren

Kerr

et al. 2020

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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There is consensus that the global food system is not delivering good nutrition for all and is causing environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity, such that a profound transformation is needed to meet the challenges of persistent malnutrition and rural poverty, aggravated by the growing consequences of climate change. Agroecological approaches have gained prominence in scientific, agricultural and political discourse in recent years, suggesting pathways to transform agricultural and food systems that address these issues. Here we present an extensive literature review of concepts, definitions and principles of agroecology, and their historical evolution, considering the three manifestations of agroecology as a science, a set of practices and a social movement; and relate them to the recent dialogue establishing a set of ten iconic elements of agroecology that have emerged from a global multi-stakeholder consultation and synthesis process. Based on this, a consolidated list of principles is developed and discussed in the context of presenting transition pathways to more sustainable food systems. The major outcomes of this paper are as follows. (1) Definition of 13 consolidated agroecological principles: recycling; input reduction; soil health; animal health; biodiversity; synergy; economic diversification; co-creation of knowledge; social values and diets; fairness; connectivity; land and natural resource governance; participation. (2) Confirmation that these principles are well aligned and complementary to the 10 elements of agroecology developed by FAO but articulate requirements of soil and animal health more explicitly and distinguish between biodiversity and economic diversification. (3) Clarification that application of these generic principles can generate diverse pathways for incremental and transformational change towards more sustainable farming and food systems. (4) Identification of four key entry points associated with the elements: diversity; circular and solidarity economy; co-creation and sharing of knowledge; and, responsible governance to enable plausible pathways of transformative change towards sustainable agriculture and food systems.

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Section: Transitions To More Sustainable Food Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agroecological principles and elements and their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems. A review

Wezel

Herren

Kerr

et al. 2020

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…Therefore it is important who is included in a MAIS, and who is excluded ( Herrero et al, 2020 ; Leach et al, 2020 ; Pigford et al, 2018 ) (see 2.1). And also, whether those excluded in one MAIS may be served by another MAIS which enacts transformative missions in a different way, thus accommodating a diversity of farmers and food system actors in terms of for example farm size, farming style, value chain model ( Klerkx and Rose, 2020 ; Stringer et al, 2020 ).…”

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Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems

Klerkx

Begemann

2020

Agricultural Systems

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Agricultural innovation systems has become a popular approach to understand and facilitate agricultural innovation. However, there is often no explicit reflection on the role of agricultural innovation systems in food systems transformation and how they relate to transformative concepts and visions (e.g. agroecology, digital agriculture, Agriculture 4.0, AgTech and FoodTech, vertical agriculture, protein transitions). To support such reflection we elaborate on the importance of a mission-oriented perspective on agricultural innovation systems. We review pertinent literature from innovation, transition and policy sciences, and argue that a mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems (MAIS) approach can help understand how agricultural innovation systems at different geographical scales develop to enable food systems transformation, in terms of forces, catalysts, and barriers in transformative food systems change. Focus points can be in the mapping of missions and sub-missions of MAIS within and across countries, or understanding the drivers, networks, governance, theories of change, evolution and impacts of MAIS. Future work is needed on further conceptual and empirical development of MAIS and its connections with existing food systems transformation frameworks. Also, we argue that agricultural systems scholars and practitioners need to reflect on how the technologies and concepts they work on relate to MAIS, how these represent a particular directionality in innovation, and whether these also may support exnovation.

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“…Such questioning has defied concepts as modernization and industrialization (Grin et al, 2010;Iizuka, 2015;Sovacool et al, 2020). Beyond that, it has particularly stimulated further reflections on how current development models affect distribution, diversity, directionality, and democracy issues within socio-technical systems where the contemporary world meets its basic needs, such as food, energy, and transport (Leach et al, 2020;Leach et al, 2012;STEPS Centre, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Notably, the debates on the dominant vision for progress have paid close attention to why changes based on multiple social, organizational, and technical innovations choose some directions, while leaving aside other transformation options in any given socio-technical system (Devaux et al, 2016;Leach et al, 2020;Stirling, 2011). These debates underline that such comprehension is pivotal to unravel further sociotechnical systems' directionality -i.e., the dominant pathway that drives the direction of change in sociotechnical settings and has to do with benefits, costs, and risks associate with transformative processes underpinned by innovation (STEPS Centre, 2010).…”

Section: S Su Um MM Ma Ar Ry Ymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These debates underline that such comprehension is pivotal to unravel further sociotechnical systems' directionality -i.e., the dominant pathway that drives the direction of change in sociotechnical settings and has to do with benefits, costs, and risks associate with transformative processes underpinned by innovation (STEPS Centre, 2010). Particularly, directionality has been a steady interest of scholars focused on food production systems (Leach et al, 2020). They have studied from varied points of view how to influence agri-food systems' directionality proactively to promote specific goals -e.g., to make systems more organized, efficient, or profitable; to make them more environmentally friendly, inclusive, or resilient (Eastwood et al, 2019;El Bilali, 2019;Läpple et al, 2016;Maye and Duncan, 2017).…”

Section: S Su Um MM Ma Ar Ry Ymentioning

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Food politics and development

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Agroecological principles and elements and their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems. A review

Agroecological principles and elements and their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems. A review

Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems

Directionality and systemic governance : Lessons from Brazilian pig system transformations from the 1960s to date

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