On food system transitions &amp; transformations : comprehensive mapping of the landscape of current thinking, research, and action

Wigboldus, Seerp; advisory, Cdi

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“…given the abundance of natural resources necessary for food production (OECD-FAO, 2021), food security improvements in the next 20-30 years would depend on crop expansion (Delzeit et al, 2017;Zabel et al, 2019). This would most likely create further conflicts of interest (OECD-FAO, 2021) and clearly shows the highly complex and multifaceted sustainability issues that underlie food systems in the region (Wigboldus, 2020). Tackling this complexity requires systemsbased approaches that can consider and integrate marginal actors and embrace both local and global dynamics, while at the same time having the ability to focus on concrete and contextual circumstances (Eakin et al, 2017;Caron et al, 2018;Dengerink et al, 2021;Hebinck et al, 2021).…”

Section: Methodology Research Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food systems transformations in South America: Insights from a transdisciplinary process rooted in Uruguay

Juri

Norberg²,

Clark³

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The wicked nature of sustainability challenges facing food systems demands intentional and synergistic actions at multiple scales and sectors. The Southern Cone of Latin America, with its historical legacy of “feeding the world,” presents interesting opportunities for generating insights into potential trajectories and processes for food system transformation. To foster such changes would require the development of collective understanding and agency to effectively realize purposeful and well-informed action toward desirable and sustainable food futures. This in turn demands the transdisciplinary engagement of academia, the private sector, government/policy-makers, community groups, and other institutions, as well as the broader society as food consumers. While the need for contextualized knowledge, priorities and definitions of what sustainable food systems change means is recognized, there is limited literature reporting these differences and critically reflecting on the role of knowledge brokers in knowledge co-production processes. The political nature of these issues requires arenas for dialogue and learning that are cross-sectoral and transcend knowledge generation. This paper presents a case study developed by SARAS Institute, a bridging organization based in Uruguay. This international community of practice co-designed a 3-year multi-stakeholder transdisciplinary process entitled “Knowledges on the Table.” We describe how the process was designed, structured, and facilitated around three phases, two analytical levels and through principles of knowledge co-production. The case study and its insights offer a model that could be useful to inform similar processes led by transdisciplinary communities of practice or bridging institutions in the early stages of transformative work. In itself, it also represents a unique approach to generate a language of collaboration, dialogue, and imagination informed by design skills and methods. While this is part of a longer-term process toward capitalizing on still-unfolding insights and coalitions, we hope that this example helps inspire similar initiatives to imagine, support, and realize contextualized sustainable food system transformations.

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Section: Methodology Research Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food systems transformations in South America: Insights from a transdisciplinary process rooted in Uruguay

Juri

Norberg²,

Clark³

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Universities have increasingly engaged in scholarship about transitions, see for example the flourishing literature on transitions of all kinds such as a transition towards a circular society (Klomp & Oosterwaal, 2021;Raworth, 2018), a society powered by renewable energy (Chen et al, 2019), transitions in fashion (Bertola, 2021;Mishra et al, 2020), foods (Wigboldus, 2020), and health (Pereno & Eriksson, 2020). The importance of learning as a catalyst for change in transitions is frequently mentioned (e.g., Beers et al, 2016;Geels, 2005), but has largely remained outside the field of educational sciences.…”

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Practices, Drivers and Barriers of an Emerging Regenerative Higher Education in Europe – A Podcast-Based Inquiry

Berg¹,

Poldner²,

Sjoer³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Universities have the potential, and the responsibility, to take on more ecological and relational approaches to facilitating learning-based change in times of interconnected socio-ecological crises. Signs for a transition towards these more regenerative approaches of higher education (RHE) that include more place-based, ecological, and relational, ways of educating can already be found in niches across Europe (see for example the proliferation of education-based living labs, field labs, challenge labs). In this paper, the results of a podcast-based inquiry into the design practices and barriers of enacting such forms of RHE are shown. This study revealed seven educational practices that occurred across the innovation niches. It is important to note these practices are enacted in different ways, or are locally nested in unique expressions, For example, while the ‘practice’ of Cultivating Personal Transformations was represented across the included cases, the way these transformations were cultivated were unique expressions of each context. These RHE-design practices are derived from twenty-six narrative-based podcasts as interviews recorded in the April through June 2021 period. The resulting podcast (The Regenerative Education Podcast) was published on all major streaming platforms from October 2021 and included 21 participants active in Dutch Universities, 1 in Sweden, 1 in Germany, 1 in France, and 3 primarily online. Each episode engages with a leading practitioner, professor, teacher, and/or activist that is trying to connect their educational practice to making the world a more equitable, sustainable, and regenerative place. The episodes ranged from 30 to 70 minutes in total length and included both English (14) and Dutch (12) interviews. These episodes were analyzed through transition mapping a method based on story analysis and transition design. The results include seven design practices such as Cultivating Personal Transformations, Nurturing Ecosystems of Support, and Tackling Relevant and Urgent Transition Challenges, as well as a preliminary design tool that educational teams can use together with students and local agents in (re)designing their own RHE to connect their educational praxis with transition challenges.

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“…Recognising these concerns, many global authoritative organisations are calling for a 'food systems transformation' (2,17,18) . High-profile reports such as the EAT-Lancet Commission for Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Climate Change and Land have called for significant reductions in total global meat production and consumptionparticularly in higher-income countriesas a fundamental action towards achieving healthy and sustainable food systems (2) .…”

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Who has a beef with reducing red and processed meat consumption? A media framing analysis

Sievert

Lawrence

Parker

et al. 2021

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: Diets high in red and processed meat (RPM) contribute substantially to environmental degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, and the global burden of chronic disease. High-profile reports have called for significant global RPM reduction, especially in high-income settings. Despite this, policy attention and political priority for the issue is low. Design: The study used a theoretically guided framing analysis to identify frames used by various interest groups in relation to reducing RPM in online news media articles published in the months around the release of four high-profile reports by authoritative organisations that included a focus on the impacts of high RPM production and/or consumption. Setting: Four major RPM producing and consuming countries – USA, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Participants: None Results: 150 news media articles were included. Articles reported the views of academics, policymakers, industry representatives, and the article authors themselves. RPM reduction was remarkably polarising. Industry frequently framed RPM reduction as part of a ‘Vegan Agenda’ or as advocated by an elite minority. Reducing RPM was also depicted as an infringement on personal choice and traditional values. Many interest groups attempted to discredit the reports by citing a lack of consensus on the evidence, or that only certain forms of farming and processing were harmful. Academics and nutrition experts were more likely to be cited in articles that were aligned with the findings of the reports. Conclusions: The polarisation of RPM reduction has led to a binary conflict between pro- and anti-meat reduction actors. This division may diminish the extent to which political leaders will prioritise this in policy agendas. Using nuanced and context-dependent messaging could ensure the narratives around meat are less conflicting and more effective in addressing health and environmental harms associated with RPM.

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On food system transitions & transformations : comprehensive mapping of the landscape of current thinking, research, and action

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Food systems transformations in South America: Insights from a transdisciplinary process rooted in Uruguay

Food systems transformations in South America: Insights from a transdisciplinary process rooted in Uruguay

Practices, Drivers and Barriers of an Emerging Regenerative Higher Education in Europe – A Podcast-Based Inquiry

Who has a beef with reducing red and processed meat consumption? A media framing analysis

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