Climate Change and Food In/Security: A Critical Nexus

Islam, Saidul; Wong, Andrea

doi:10.3390/environments4020038

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“…The present global food system is unsustainable, and there is a need to reshape it to enhance its economic, social, and environmental sustainability [1,2]. Consistent with this, eight of the 17 United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 are directly or indirectly related to food security and sustainability.…”

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Environmental and Political Determinants of Food Choices: A Preliminary Study in a Croatian Sample

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Production, processing, transporting, selling, and consumption of food are highly resource intensive. Therefore, if they are not well managed the consequences for the environment are far-reaching. This study aimed at investigating behaviors and attitudes of the Croatian population concerning the influence of environmental and political determinants of food choices, and the socio-demographic factors associated with pro-environmental behavior. Data analysis involved a non-probabilistic sample of 1534 adult participants from Croatia who responded to a validated questionnaire from November 2017 to March 2018. To test differences between sociodemographic groups, Welch’s t-test (two groups) and ANOVA (multiple groups) were used. The relationship between age and motivators of food choices was analyzed with Pearson’s r correlation coefficient. Participants reported a neutral rate of agreement with the items, with the exception of items related to food waste and food origin, for which they expressed a moderate amount of agreement. Socio-demographic factors that influence environmentally or politically concerned food choices in our study were age (older participants, p < 0.001), gender (women in comparison to men, p < 0.05), education level (higher education in comparison to elementary/high school, p < 0.05), marital status (married/cohabiting in comparison to unmarried, p < 0.05), responsibility for food supply (those who are responsible for food supply in comparison to those who are not responsible for food supply, p < 0.05), eating practices (participants with specific eating practices in comparison to participants without specific eating practices, p < 0.05), and smoking (those who have never smoked score and those who used to smoke in comparison to active smokers, p < 0.05). The results show that there are no statistically significant differences in environmental and political determinants of food choices based on the place of residence and employment status. The findings indicate that environmental and political determinants do not play a significant role in the food choices among the Croatian population.

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“…Additionally, agricultural innovation is usually driven by different visions exposing different development directions, e.g., sustainable developments and energy efficiency [7,8,16,52,53,104]. However, soil should play a major role in food production in view of another fundamental issue today, namely the increase of both food requirements and the reduction in soil availability and fertility due to population growth and the growing phenomena of desertification and soil degradation [106][107][108][109][110][111]. In this requirement, the sustainability of agricultural practices can make sense of the reduction of waste and the agronomic energy reuse of by-products [75,82,101].…”

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“…Energy can assume a key role in current innovations, highlighting chances and limitations for sustainable development [32,33,38,39,76,82,83,[112][113][114][115]. In this review, the primary sector is investigated due to different issues, e.g., alternative systems of agriculture, more sustainable modernizations in agricultural and forestry [116], reuse of rural land [75,77,82,101,107,116], environmental respect avoiding stress on natural resources, e.g., soil, which can lead to degenerative phenomena, e.g., soil degradation, which are especially severe if they relate to the loss of high-quality soils [37,80,[106][107][108][109][110][111]. Innovation has become increasingly applied to survey the organization of joint technological, social, and institutional modernizations in the primary sector [6,99,103,106,113].…”

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Revolutionizing Towards Sustainable Agricultural Systems: The Role of Energy

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Innovations play a significant role in the primary sector (i.e., agriculture, fisheries and forestry), ensuring a greater performance towards bioeconomy and sustainability. Innovation is being progressively applied to examining the organization of joint technological, social, and institutional modernizations in the primary sector. Exploring the governance of actor relations, potential policies, and support structures is crucial in the phase of innovation, e.g., during research activities, often applied at the national or sectorial scale. However, when opposing normative guidelines for alternative systems of agriculture arise (e.g., the industrial agriculture paradigm), modernizations in agricultural and forestry may contribute to outlining more sustainable systems. To date, innovations in the primary sector do not seem as advanced as in other sectors, apart from industrial agriculture, which sometimes appears to be the most encouraged. The present review aims to shed light on innovations that have been identified and promoted in recent years in the primary sector, including agriculture and forestry. The need to pursue sustainable development in this sector requires the inclusion of a fourth dimension, namely energy. In fact, energy sustainability is an issue that has been much discussed in recent years. However, the need for progressive technological progress is indispensable to ensure long-lasting energy efficiency. The aim is to understand what innovations have been implemented recently, highlighting opportunities and limitations for the primary sector.

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“…The FAO extends this definition with four main dimensions of food, utilization, and stability-as seen in Figure 1 [15]. One reason it is urgent to address climate change is the potentially devastating impact on food security worldwide [4,16]. Declining food production and yields from agriculture, aquaculture, and fisheries are the likely results of climate change [17].…”

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Tackling Regional Climate Change Impacts and Food Security Issues: A Critical Analysis across ASEAN, PIF, and SAARC

Islam

Kieu

2020

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Climate change and food security issues are multi-faceted and transcend across national boundaries. Therefore, this paper begins with the premise that regional organizations are optimally positioned to address climate change and food security issues while actively engaging global partners to slow down or reverse current trajectories. However, the potential of regional organizations to play a central role in mitigating these vital concerns has not been realized. In this paper, we focus on three regional organizations—the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and set out to investigate the multifaceted obstacles that impede regional organizations’ ability to effectively cope with these problems. We qualitatively review the efficacy of policies and examine the connections between politico-economic processes that affect the development, cooperation, and execution of regional policies. In doing so, we review regional policies using five key criteria: (i) planning, (ii) implementation, (iii) cooperation, (iv) legal obligation and (v) international contribution. Our findings suggest that regional organizations face fundamental problems in the implementation of extensive policies due to the lack of cooperation and legal obligation between member nation-states that stems from fundamental prioritization of national development agendas over regional cooperation.

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Climate Change and Food In/Security: A Critical Nexus

Cited by 53 publications

References 27 publications

Environmental and Political Determinants of Food Choices: A Preliminary Study in a Croatian Sample

Environmental and Political Determinants of Food Choices: A Preliminary Study in a Croatian Sample

Revolutionizing Towards Sustainable Agricultural Systems: The Role of Energy

Tackling Regional Climate Change Impacts and Food Security Issues: A Critical Analysis across ASEAN, PIF, and SAARC

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