Food system resilience: Defining the concept

Tendall, Danielle M.; Joerin, Jonas; Kopainsky, Birgit; Edwards, Paul N.; Shreck, Aimee; Le, Quang Bao; Kruetli, Pius; Grant, Michelle; Six, Johan

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2015.08.001

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“…From this perspective, firms should avoid engaging in severe risks whose impacts cannot reasonably be assessed or which clearly threaten the entire socioecological system. This notion of sustainability resonates with core aspects of resilience theory, which focuses on the capacity of a system to retain function, structure, feedback capabilities, and identity after it has experienced a dynamic shock (Redman, 2014;Tendall et al, 2015). For instance, the financial crisis in 2008 threatened to destroy the global financial system.…”

Section: Conceptual Complexity Of the Sustainability Conceptmentioning

confidence: 94%

Supplier Development for Sustainability: Contextual Barriers in Global Supply Chains

Busse¹,

Niu²,

Schleper

et al. 2016

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107

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Acknowledgments:An earlier version of this paper was the recipient of the 2015 Chris Voss Best Paper Award granted at the 22 nd European Operations Management Association conference. We are most grateful to the EurOMA Scientific Committee for choosing our paper and encouraging us to consider IJPDLM as a publication outlet for our research. We also acknowledge the helpful feedback received at the conference. Moreover, we would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers at IJPDLM who have provided extremely insightful and constructive suggestions which helped us to improve this paper substantially. Finally, we express our gratitude to the Editor, Alexander E. Ellinger, for facilitating a speedy review process. Design/methodology/approach -A dyadic case study design was adopted with a Western European buyer and six of its Chinese suppliers. The database consists of 41 interviews and 81 documents.Findings -Contextual barriers to SDS in global supply chains derive from complexities in the sustainability concept, socio-economic differences, spatial and linguistic distance, as well as cultural differences between buyers and suppliers. Partial remedies include effective joint communications, an open organizational culture, and the fostering of cross-contextual understanding.Research implications -The findings contribute to theory development at the intersection of sustainable and global supply chain management research. They help to explain why scarce sustainability-related progress in global supply chains has occurred in recent years.Practical implications -The identified barriers facilitate managerial decision making that will expedite SDS progress in global contexts.Social implications -By diffusing knowledge regarding available remedies, the study contributes to improving SDS effectiveness, thereby fostering sustainability capabilities and performance of suppliers.Originality/value -This research highlights the criticality of contextual barriers to SDS. The barrier effects that stem from differing real-world conceptions of sustainability may inform future sustainable supply chain management research within and beyond SDS.

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Section: Conceptual Complexity Of the Sustainability Conceptmentioning

confidence: 94%

Supplier Development for Sustainability: Contextual Barriers in Global Supply Chains

Busse¹,

Niu²,

Schleper

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107

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“…Learning from developed countries, preventative policy should be made a priority in low-income countries that are currently undergoing urban population influx and transitioning away from local food production (with shorter supply chains) towards a more globalised food system. Evidence-based research on sustainable production practices and development should be adapted into appropriate location-specific mechanisms of governance and institutional support for improving food system resilience [43,[99][100][101].…”

Section: Urban Agriculture's Role In Food Securitymentioning

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

2018

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Abstract:To be "connected" is "to care", because how and what we care about is influenced, and influences, what we are connected with. Emotional connection predicts environmental concern and children exposed to green environments take this appreciation of nature with them into adulthood. However, the majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for people to interact and bond with nature are greatly diminished, thereby potentially threatening the liveability of cities into the future. Connection with nature has been shown repeatedly to benefit human wellbeing and predict pro-environmental behaviours. By definition "nature" includes urban agriculture, which is also an integral component of a city's foodscape, thereby providing opportunities to improve the wellbeing of city inhabitants as well as help ensure food security. This will only be attainable if the next generation has an emotional connection to nature, and the necessary life skills to help them enter adult life as informed food citizens who make healthy and sustainable decisions for themselves as well as others. This paper reviews existing literature on foodscape (or one's food environment) and biophilia (the love of life or living systems) to highlight the need for inter-disciplinary research that combines urban agriculture and food literacy to ensure future food security and wellbeing of urban inhabitants.

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“…The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries www.ejisdc.org projected to continue (Tendall et al, 2015). As a result of this, Gahukar (2016) specifically indicates that "… [r]elying on food strategies including livestock production [systems] to feed our ever-growing human population seems to be impossible."…”

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Digital Technologies and Sustainable Livestock Systems in Rural Communities

Gwaka

2017

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The 43 rd Committee on World Food Security (CFS) convention reiterated the importance of livestock towards eliminating food insecurity across the globe. Livestock provides extensive services and products which are critical in addressing the issues of hunger, malnutrition, health and diseases. However, despite such importance, livestock systems across the globe continue to face the challenge of sustainability. In this research article, using ethnographic research techniques, we examine the Beitbridge livestock systems to understand the vulnerabilities within the system and current efforts to overcome. The article identifies that the Beitbridge livestock system, similar to many others, faces numerous socio-ecological and political economy challenges. Also, in the past engagement of the author and the community, it emerged that there was limited use of digital technologies within the community. Therefore, this study explore whether digital technologies can contribute towards sustainability of livestock and if so, how. The major findings of the study are that, DTs have affordances which can be exploited to contribute towards the sustainability of the livestock system. However, in order for this to happen, there is need for convergence of conditions e.g. presence of supporting institutions and improvement of digital infrastructure. These findings confirm the need for context based studies on DTs. The findings of the study provide practitioners and policy makers 'something to think about' in the development of DTs and supporting systems.

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Food system resilience: Defining the concept

Cited by 578 publications

References 52 publications

Supplier Development for Sustainability: Contextual Barriers in Global Supply Chains

Supplier Development for Sustainability: Contextual Barriers in Global Supply Chains

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Digital Technologies and Sustainable Livestock Systems in Rural Communities

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