The Role of Local Authorities in Shaping Local Food Systems

Zerbian, Tanya; Adams, Michael D.; Dooris, Mark; Pool, Ursula

doi:10.3390/su141912004

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“…The positive potential of diminishing the food system's environmental impact through local food policies emerging in numerous European and French regions was confirmed using the TLCA-adapted methodology. This confirms the determinant role of local authorities in shaping sustainable food systems as well as the positive externalities of reconnecting producers and consumers as suggested by previous research [10,32,89,90]. It thus validates the hypothesis claiming the positive consequences of local food policies on the local actors and their environmental practices.…”

Section: Positive Impact Of Local Food Policies and Policy Implicationssupporting

confidence: 88%

Environmental Assessment of Local Food Policies through a Territorial Life Cycle Approach

Lulovicova

Bouissou

2023

Sustainability

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Sub-national governments play a vital role in achieving food-related sustainability goals through the re-territorialization of agriculture. While the environmental impact of such policies cannot be reduced to decreased food miles, multiple methodological bottlenecks prevent seizing their entire potential. In this paper, a territorial life cycle analysis is adapted and used to comprehend the cradle-to-grave impact of local food policies. This is conducted by assessing the impact of a territory’s food-producing and consuming activities before and after the local food policies implementation. To evaluate the feasibility of the methodology, the municipality of Mouans-Sartoux (southeast France), engaged in local food policies for twenty years, is chosen. Four impact categories are modeled: global warming, fossil resource depletion, water consumption, and land use. The findings show that local food policies drive direct and indirect changes in farming and retail practices, but a more significant transformation is achieved by inhabitants, mostly by decreasing meat and ultra-processed product consumption. All actions summed up decrease the local food system’s impact by between 7 and 19%. These results demonstrate the efficiency of the method to provide a holistic environmental assessment at a mesoscale as well as the environmental efficacity of the local authority’s intervention in food-related matters.

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Section: Positive Impact Of Local Food Policies and Policy Implicationssupporting

confidence: 88%

Environmental Assessment of Local Food Policies through a Territorial Life Cycle Approach

Lulovicova

Bouissou

2023

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“…It is a socio-ecological construction that encompasses a specific geographical area, but it is also fundamentally a political process. According those reference, sustainability is viewed as an inherent political aspect of food and nutrition security [15,12,22,31].…”

Section: Governance and Sustainabilitymentioning

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Food security status in Cirebon Regency and how it could lead To sustainability

Nurjanah,

Lara Utama

2024

E3S Web Conf.

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Cirebon Regency is in West Java Province and it’s one of the largest rice producer in Indonesia so that Cirebon Regency has a rice surplus. West Java is included as a region with access rice availability and the source of rice comes from within the West Java region itself, so there is minimal intervention from other regions in terms of meeting rice needs. In an effort to maintain rice resilience, strategies that can be implemented by West Java Province include maximizing the availability of rice in the region to meet local needs, distributing part of its production to surrounding deficit areas, and maintaining the productivity of rice fields. The results of the review literature, food security were not realized in Cirebon Regency because exports and imports of rice production were not properly recorded, distribution of rice production was not monitored, supply stability and price affordability were not controlled, access and information to markets are limited.. The regional government is implementing an agricultural intensification policy, especially in cultivating rice considering that the amount of agricultural land is decreasing, but behind the success there is the potential for climate change which could cause a decrease in productivity. In order to support sustainable food security in Cirebon Regency, it is necessary to analyzed the availability and distribution patterns of rice from upstream to downstream. This pattern is expected to answer the uncertainty of rice availability in Cirebon Regency and its relationship in supporting food sustainability in the future. The method that will be used to answer this problem is to carry out primary data analysis at the rice mill level in Cirebon Regency. Apart from that, the rate of land conversion as a factor influencing rice production is used as analysis material for recommendations for the sustainability of food availability in Cirebon Regency. Food security and sustainability efforts can be achieved with policy changes and transformation of food system governance.

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“…The lack of capacities is not limited, however, to financial resources and the way they are allocated between and within ministries. Also challenging is the Lack of know-how in government institutions leading to a poor knowledge and conceptual understanding of what, when, and how to deliver transformation (Yee and Liu, 2021;Zerbian et al, 2022). From their experience in nutrition transition in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, Gillespie et al (2019) noted, for instance, that the lack of understanding and knowledge of nutrition (as a multisectoral issue) is usually a crucial barrier to the prioritization of nutrition in LMICs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Navigating the politics and processes of food systems transformation: guidance from a holistic framework

Béné,

Abdulai

2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The call for transforming food systems from their current unsustainable trajectories toward more desirable, healthy, sustainable, resilient, and equitable outcomes has received unprecedented echoes recently—particularly following the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. But lack of guidance on how to do so in a comprehensive and integrated manner has left many actors uncertain, skeptical, or even low-spirited about the prospects of delivering such an ambitious task. Through this work, we argue that food systems transformation is not an impossible goal to aspire for; however, whether we achieve any form of transformation is essentially down to how food systems politics are enacted. Politics, we posit, is at the center of creating and maintaining current unsustainable food system trajectories and will also be crucial in guiding change processes toward sustainable goals. In this paper, we explore this argument through a conceptual framework. The framework, which is relevant for both high and lower-income countries, integrates multiple perspectives and practical experiences on transition, transformation and politics to propose a holistic diagnostic and prescriptive tool for food systems transformation. Three critical lessons emerge from this: first, the transformation (of food systems) must be normative, deliberate and goal-oriented—as opposed to driven by technological innovations; second, the process must account for, integrate, and build on the multi-dimensional and multi-procedural nature of the politics that drive (or resist) changes; and third, the transformation needs to build on a strong driving environment, one that transforms not just food systems but also their governance.

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The Role of Local Authorities in Shaping Local Food Systems

Cited by 10 publications

References 63 publications

Environmental Assessment of Local Food Policies through a Territorial Life Cycle Approach

Environmental Assessment of Local Food Policies through a Territorial Life Cycle Approach

Food security status in Cirebon Regency and how it could lead To sustainability

Navigating the politics and processes of food systems transformation: guidance from a holistic framework

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