Interplay of trade and food system resilience: Gains on supply diversity over time at the cost of trade independency

Kummu, Matti; Kinnunen, Pekka; Lehikoinen, Elina; Porkka, Miina; Queiroz, Cibele; Röös, Elin; Troell, Max; Weil, Charlotte

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100360

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“…In the Anthropocene biosphere, systems of people and nature are not just linked but intertwined, and intertwined across temporal and spatial scales (Reyers et al 2018 ). Local events can escalate into global challenges, and local places are shaped by global dynamics (Adger et al 2009 ; Crona et al 2015 , 2016 ; Liu et al 2016 ; Kummu et al 2020 ). The tightly coupled human interactions of globalization that allow for the continued flow of information, capital, goods, services, and people, also create global systemic risk (Centeno et al 2015 ; Galaz et al 2017 ).…”

Section: The Biosphere and The Earth System Foundationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

Folke

Polasky

Rockström

et al. 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such change for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of the current situation where people and nature are dynamically intertwined and embedded in the biosphere, placing shocks and extreme events as part of this dynamic; humanity has become the major force in shaping the future of the Earth system as a whole; and the scale and pace of the human dimension have caused climate change, rapid loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities, and loss of resilience to deal with uncertainty and surprise. Taken together, human actions are challenging the biosphere foundation for a prosperous development of civilizations. The Anthropocene reality—of rising system-wide turbulence—calls for transformative change towards sustainable futures. Emerging technologies, social innovations, broader shifts in cultural repertoires, as well as a diverse portfolio of active stewardship of human actions in support of a resilient biosphere are highlighted as essential parts of such transformations.

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Section: The Biosphere and The Earth System Foundationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

Folke

Polasky

Rockström

et al. 2021

Ambio

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“…Many countries, however, are increasingly reliant on food imports from a shrinking number of exporters 49 , which makes them more vulnerable to disruptions. The tendency towards concentration in the seafood sector creates power imbalances that risk undermining food security in low-income countries and communities 50 .…”

Section: Reactive Actions To Covid-19 By Seafood System Actors and Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging COVID-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system

Allison¹,

Asche²,

Belton³

et al. 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns are creating health and economic crises that threaten food and nutrition security. The seafood sector provides important sources of employment and nutrition, especially in low-income countries, and is highly globalized, allowing shocks to propagate internationally. We use a resilience ‘action cycle’ framework to study the first five months of COVID-19-related disruptions, impacts, and responses to the seafood sector. Looking across high- and low-income countries, we find that some supply chains, market segments, companies, small-scale actors and civil society have shown initial signs of greater resilience than others. For example, frozen Ecuadorian shrimp and Chinese tilapia exports were diverted to alternative markets, while live-fresh supply chains were more impacted. COVID-19 has also highlighted the vulnerability of certain groups working in- or dependent on the seafood sector. We discuss early coping and adaptive responses, combined with lessons from past shocks, that could be considered when building resilience in the sector.

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“…The global orientation of food supply chains results in the possibility of food system activities carried out in one location to have both positive impacts as well as unintended consequences in other, possibly distant, locations (Eakin et al, 2017b;Wood et al, 2018), affecting humans, as well as flora and fauna (Díaz et al, 2018). Undesirable outcomes of interactions between global food trade, public health and environmental impacts are a major source of food insecurity and social and environmental injustices (Feldbaum et al, 2010;Friel et al, 2020;Kummu et al, 2020). Governing value chains towards being fair and just, demands addressing concentration of power, risk management that shifts the burden to those with less power (TEEB, 2018), and the welfare of animals reared as livestock (Keeling et al, 2019;Sandøe et al, 2020).…”

Section: Four Universal Societal Goals For Sustainabilitymentioning

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A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems

Hebinck¹,

Zurek²,

Achterbosch³

et al. 2020

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The growing acknowledgement that food systems require transformation has led to a call for comprehensive sustainability assessments to support decision-making. For frameworks to serve sustainability governance, they must show the trade-offs and unintended consequences that might result from policy decisions across key goals relevant to food system actors. This paper reviews existing literature and frameworks and builds on stakeholder input to present a sustainability compass with associated metrics for food system assessments. The compass defines sustainability scores for four societal goals, underpinned by areas of concern. The operationalisation approach for assessment balances policy-usability, system complexity and comprehensiveness, while providing actionable insights. It concludes by outlining additional challenges for research to continue development of food system frameworks that support sustainability governance.

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Interplay of trade and food system resilience: Gains on supply diversity over time at the cost of trade independency

Cited by 116 publications

References 37 publications

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

Emerging COVID-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system

A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems

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