Trade-offs and synergies in food system transition: case of the Ethiopian dairy sector

IF 5.6 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food Security Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI:10.1007/s12571-025-01546-4

Augustine Abioye Ayantunde, Jan van der Lee, Abule Ebro, Asaah Ndambi, Catharien Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Marijke Dijkshoorn-Dekker, Siemen van Berkum

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The transformation of food systems in low-and middle-income countries is indispensable for attaining food and nutrition security. To analyse and better understand food system transition, transition pathway approach is commonly used as a tool to engage key stakeholders in looking for a solution to a major structural food system issue that requires a transition. Inherent in these food system transition pathways are trade-offs and synergies within or between different dimensions of sustainability, scales, and types of actors. The objective of this study was to identify and assess with the stakeholders the trade-offs and synergies in transition pathways of doubling dairy consumption in Ethiopia. Of the four transition pathways developed of doubling dairy consumption within 15 years, we focused on two pathways in this study. The “peri-urban pathway” focused on the vision that all low-income peri-urban consumers have access to safe and affordable pasteurized milk by 2037 while the “ rural pathway” aimed at access to pasteurized milk by all rural pregnant and lactating women, and children under 7 years. Fifteen trade-offs were identified by the participants for the two pathways. Scores of the importance of each trade-off ranged from 1 to 3 on a Likert scale from 1 (low) to 4 (very high) with average of 2.47 ± 0.42 and 2.6 ± 0.371 for peri-urban and rural pathways, respectively. Applying transition pathway approach to this case study shows that stakeholder participation is essential to assessment of trade-offs and synergies in food system transition, and that it is context-specific and pathway-dependent.

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粮食系统转型中的权衡与协同效应：以埃塞俄比亚乳制品行业为例

低收入和中等收入国家的粮食系统转型对于实现粮食和营养安全是不可或缺的。为了分析和更好地理解粮食系统转型，转型途径方法通常被用作一种工具，用于让关键利益相关者参与寻找需要转型的主要结构性粮食系统问题的解决方案。这些粮食系统转型途径所固有的是可持续性、规模和行为者类型的不同维度内部或之间的权衡和协同作用。本研究的目的是确定和评估利益相关者在埃塞俄比亚乳制品消费翻番的过渡途径中的权衡和协同作用。在15年内乳制品消费量翻一番的四种过渡途径中，我们在本研究中重点关注了两种途径。“城郊路径”的重点是到2037年所有城郊低收入消费者都能获得安全、负担得起的巴氏奶，而“农村路径”的目标是所有农村孕妇、哺乳期妇女和7岁以下儿童都能获得巴氏奶。参与者为这两种途径确定了15种权衡。每个权衡的重要性得分在李克特量表上从1（低）到4（非常高）不等，平均为2.47±0.42和2.6±0.371。将转型途径方法应用于本案例研究表明，利益相关者的参与对于评估粮食系统转型中的权衡和协同作用至关重要，并且它是具体情况和途径依赖的。

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Food Security FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-

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14.00

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6.00%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches. Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption. Nutrition, food quality and food safety. Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.