Towards metrics of sustainable food systems: a review of the resilience and vulnerability literature

Prosperi, Paolo; Allen, Thomas; Cogill, Bruce; Padilla, Martine; Peri, Iuri

doi:10.1007/s10669-016-9584-7

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“…Top-down rural development, industrial agriculture, and oligopolistic food systems have been increasingly called into question (Altieri et al 2017;IPES-Food 2017). Furthermore, the production, distribution, and consumption of food and related activities are responsible for biodiversity loss, water depletion, and land degradation and cause up to 29% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (Vermeulen et al 2012;Allen and Prosperi 2016;IPES-Food 2016). Malnutrition is on the rise, with an estimated 821 million undernourished people (FAO et al 2018), as well as 1.9 billion overweight adults, of which 672 million are obese (HLPE 2017).…”

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Mapping Food Systems: A Participatory Research Tool Tested in Kenya and Bolivia

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“…Solutions for these growing and intertwined challenges require new metrics and knowledge-based assessment tools (Prosperi et al 2016;Sukhdev et al 2016). Food system research has often been based on the analysis of agrifood value chains (Kaplinsky and Morris 2001).…”

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Mapping Food Systems: A Participatory Research Tool Tested in Kenya and Bolivia

Jacobi

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Ngutu

et al. 2019

Mountain Research and Development

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“…Sustainable diets are protective and respectful of biodiversity and ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically fair and affordable; nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy; while optimising natural and human resources" (FAO, 2010b). Food systems are complex social-ecological systems (Prosperi, Allen, Cogill, Padilla, & Peri, 2016;Tendall et al, 2015), and a simplified summary of these components is presented in Figure 1. Food systems are complex social-ecological systems (Prosperi, Allen, Cogill, Padilla, & Peri, 2016;Tendall et al, 2015), and a simplified summary of these components is presented in Figure 1.…”

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“…A sustainable diet consists of several interconnecting components, which have been outlined through a number of conceptual frameworks (FAO, 2010b, Johnston, Fanzo, & Cogill, 2014Jones et al, 2016). Food systems are complex social-ecological systems (Prosperi, Allen, Cogill, Padilla, & Peri, 2016;Tendall et al, 2015), and a simplified summary of these components is presented in Figure 1. Due to the broad yet interconnected nature of sustainability and human diets, research in this field has evolved along multiple disciplinary lines and is difficult to assimilate due to the disparate frameworks and approaches used (Auestad & Fulgoni, 2015).…”

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Assessing the inclusion of seafood in the sustainable diet literature

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The literature on sustainable diets is broad in its scope, and application yet is consistently supportive of a move away from animal‐based diets towards more plant‐based diets. The positioning of seafood within the sustainable diet literature is less clear. A literature review was conducted to examine how the environmental impacts of seafood consumption are assessed and what conclusions are being drawn about the inclusion of seafood in a sustainable diet. Seafood is an essential part of the global food system but is not adequately addressed in most of the sustainable diet literature. Aquaculture, the world's fastest growing food sector, was considered by very few papers. Seafood consumption was commonly presented as a dilemma due to the perceived trade‐offs between positive health outcomes from eating seafood and concerns of overfishing. A number of studies included seafood as part of their sustainable diet scenario, or as part of a diet that had lower impacts than current consumption. Most of the indicators used were biophysical, with a strong focus on greenhouse gas emissions, and very few studies addressed biological or ecological impacts. The assessment of seafood was limited in many studies due to relevant data sets not being incorporated into the models used. Where they were used, data sources and methodological choices were often not stated thereby limiting the transparency of many studies. Both farmed and wild‐capture production methods need to be integrated into research on the impacts of diets and future food scenarios to better understand and promote the benefits of sustainable diets.

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“…Smith et al (2016) propose a methodology to quantify the impact of information to an intelligence analyst within the context of networked data, with a case study related to Twitter posts. Next, we feature a review article on resilience and vulnerability analysis of food systems, through a modeling paradigm of social-ecological systems (Prosperi et al 2016).…”

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