Post COVID 19 and food pathways to sustainable transformation

Blay-Palmer, Alison; Carey, Rachel; Valette, Élodie; Sanderson, Matthew R.

doi:10.1007/s10460-020-10051-7

Cited by 74 publications

(65 citation statements)

References 3 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Lancet 2020; Moseley and Battersby 2020;Power et al 2020) and disruptions to supply chains on a global scale and make similar calls for transformative change in food systems that build on principles of food sovereignty and support local markets (e.g. Altieri and Nicholls 2020;Blay-Palmer et al 2020; Van der Ploeg 2020; Worstell 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order

Clapp

Moseley

2020

The Journal of Peasant Studies

291

182

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Our analysis situates the current COVID-19 induced food crisis within a longer-term historical perspective on policy responses to past food crises. We argue that the legacies left by these past policies created vulnerabilities in the face of the present crisis, which is characterized by three interlocking dynamics: disruptions to global food supply chains, the loss of income and livelihoods due to the global economic recession, and uneven food price trends unleashed by a set of complex factors. We make the case that the COVID-19 pandemic marks an inflection point and demands a different set of policy responses that work toward fundamentally transforming food systems.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order

Clapp

Moseley

2020

The Journal of Peasant Studies

291

182

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…While in past years, the FAO recognized military conflicts and climate extremes as main threats to food security, the 2020 report emphasized that pandemic-related economic slowdowns and downturns undermined efforts to end hunger worldwide [ 3 ]. The pandemic is not only impacting people’s lives but is disrupting food supply chains [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]. As the virus spreads and public health protection measures tighten, there are many ways in which the global food system has been strained (border closures, quarantines, supply chain disruptions, etc.).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of COVID-19 on Trade and Economic Aspects of Food Security: Evidence from 45 Developing Countries

Erokhin

Tianming

2020

IJERPH

245

173

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The stability of food supply chains is crucial to the food security of people around the world. Since the beginning of 2020, this stability has been undergoing one of the most vigorous pressure tests ever due to the COVID-19 outbreak. From a mere health issue, the pandemic has turned into an economic threat to food security globally in the forms of lockdowns, economic decline, food trade restrictions, and rising food inflation. It is safe to assume that the novel health crisis has badly struck the least developed and developing economies, where people are particularly vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition. However, due to the recency of the COVID-19 problem, the impacts of macroeconomic fluctuations on food insecurity have remained scantily explored. In this study, the authors attempted to bridge this gap by revealing interactions between the food security status of people and the dynamics of COVID-19 cases, food trade, food inflation, and currency volatilities. The study was performed in the cases of 45 developing economies distributed to three groups by the level of income. The consecutive application of the autoregressive distributed lag method, Yamamoto’s causality test, and variance decomposition analysis allowed the authors to find the food insecurity effects of COVID-19 to be more perceptible in upper-middle-income economies than in the least developed countries. In the latter, food security risks attributed to the emergence of the health crisis were mainly related to economic access to adequate food supply (food inflation), whereas in higher-income developing economies, availability-sided food security risks (food trade restrictions and currency depreciation) were more prevalent. The approach presented in this paper contributes to the establishment of a methodology framework that may equip decision-makers with up-to-date estimations of health crisis effects on economic parameters of food availability and access to staples in food-insecure communities.

show abstract

“…This has generated a social momentum for change regarding food systems development with studies concluding that the food system is ‘broken’ ( Oliver et al, 2018 ) and needs to be made ‘planet-proof’ ( Fraser and Campbell, 2019 ; Rockström et al, 2020 ; Willett et al, 2019 ), ‘circular’, ‘regenerative’ and ‘inclusive’ ( Gosnell et al, 2019 ; Pouw et al, 2019 ; Van Zanten et al, 2019 ). 1 Recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have catalysed such reflections ( Baudron and Liégeois, 2020 ; Blay-Palmer et al, 2020 ; Kanter and Boza, 2020 ; Stephens et al, 2020 ). As a response to these calls to transformative action, there is increasing scientific reflection on how to shape future food systems and the technologies and concepts that would underpin future food systems ( Herrero et al, 2020 ; Kirova et al, 2019 ; Klerkx and Rose, 2020 ; Mier et al, 2018 ; Tittonell, 2014 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems

Klerkx

Begemann

2020

Agricultural Systems

223

105

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Agricultural innovation systems has become a popular approach to understand and facilitate agricultural innovation. However, there is often no explicit reflection on the role of agricultural innovation systems in food systems transformation and how they relate to transformative concepts and visions (e.g. agroecology, digital agriculture, Agriculture 4.0, AgTech and FoodTech, vertical agriculture, protein transitions). To support such reflection we elaborate on the importance of a mission-oriented perspective on agricultural innovation systems. We review pertinent literature from innovation, transition and policy sciences, and argue that a mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems (MAIS) approach can help understand how agricultural innovation systems at different geographical scales develop to enable food systems transformation, in terms of forces, catalysts, and barriers in transformative food systems change. Focus points can be in the mapping of missions and sub-missions of MAIS within and across countries, or understanding the drivers, networks, governance, theories of change, evolution and impacts of MAIS. Future work is needed on further conceptual and empirical development of MAIS and its connections with existing food systems transformation frameworks. Also, we argue that agricultural systems scholars and practitioners need to reflect on how the technologies and concepts they work on relate to MAIS, how these represent a particular directionality in innovation, and whether these also may support exnovation.

show abstract

Post COVID 19 and food pathways to sustainable transformation

Cited by 74 publications

References 3 publications

This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order

This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order

Impacts of COVID-19 on Trade and Economic Aspects of Food Security: Evidence from 45 Developing Countries

Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About