Food security governance: a systematic literature review

Food Sovereignty: The Case and the Space for Community Led Agricultural Autonomy within the Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition

“…A recent definition for food security governance refers to the "formal and informal interactions between public and/or private entities ultimately aiming at the realisation of food availability, food access, and food utilisation, and their stability over time" (Candel, 2014), hinting at the complexity of the problem. The more good governance a food producing nation has over production, the more it appears to achieve higher yields without the expansion of agricultural land (Mandemaker et al, 2011), preserving a "soft" governance to reconfigure state, market, and societal relationships towards an improved environmental outcome (Brannstrom et al, 2012).…”

Canada at the G8 and UN Committee on World Food Security: forum-shifting in global food security governance

“…Following a series of UN summits and multi-stakeholder policy dialogues, a new global policy consensus emerged around new types of institutional arrangements and policies required to address the crisis and achieve long-term world food security. In the same instance, the crisis produced a major disjuncture in how policymakers and scholars understood the causes of food insecurity that resulted in competing understandings of the governance responses required (see Candel 2014). In a recent article Lang and Barling (2012) argue that two perspectives now dominate current global food security governance debates: 1) an 'old' food security analysis that frames the problem as one of underproduction with the preferred course of action emphasizing improved coordination among international food bodies, better informational exchanges on food production and stocks, and technology-led agricultural productivity growth; 2) a 'new' sustainable food security perspective that focuses on the mismatch of production, consumption and policy and identifies solutions security consisting of a shortand long-term reorientation of food supply and consumption patterns aligned to address environmental, health and social inequalities (Lang and Barling 2012: 316-317).…”

Developing adaptive capacity in times of climate change in central rural Vietnam: exploring smallholders’ learning and governance

“…Systematic literature reviews are common in many fields of inquiry, most noticeably in health research, and have increasingly been used in environmental studies on issues such as water policy (Gallego-Ayala, 2013), CCA (Berrang-Ford et al, 2015), and food security (Candel, 2014). Compared to traditional methods, systematic reviews allow for more transparency and reduce reviewers' selection and interpretation bias (Petticrew & Roberts, The interplay b etween social learning and adaptive capacity | 25 2 2006).…”

“…Compared to traditional methods, systematic reviews allow for more transparency and reduce reviewers' selection and interpretation bias (Petticrew & Roberts, The interplay b etween social learning and adaptive capacity | 25 2 2006). We have drawn on the methodologies of (e.g., Biesbroek et al, 2013;Candel, 2014;Ford et al, 2011) to construct our systematic review methodology. Figure 2.1 shows the different steps undertaken in this review; these are briefly discussed below.…”

“…The data extraction table (see SM A3) presents the results literally to ensure that all the summary descriptions of the reviewed articles can be traced (to one single document source) in an easily accessible manner (Candel, 2014).…”