Frugality and cross-sectoral policymaking for food security

Q1 Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Saradindu Bhaduri , Kinsuk Mani Sinha , Peter Knorringa
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Abstract

The growing concerns about food security, especially in the disadvantaged regions of the world, often point out the inadequacies of strictly sectoral approaches to addressing the problems of agriculture. Such policy approaches coincided with the rise of a global, top-down, formal, science-driven development of agriculture. Over time, such interventions have drawn criticism from multiple corners as inadequately addressing the need for local variation in institutional contexts. The objective of this paper is to adopt a bottom-up perspective to address the need for cross-sectorality in food security policies. Sustainable Rural Livelihood (SRL) and Grassroots Innovation (GI) are two well recognized schools of thought which emphasize the cross-sectoral approaches to livelihood and local level problem-solving. By embracing a frugality lens, we can offer a conceptual regularity in the patterns of behaviour and decision-making highlighted by the SRL and GI schools of thought. Taking a step further, the frugality lens, by focusing on the usefulness of a decision in the actual environment, emphasizes the need to diagnose local institutions better. Note, however, that the contention of the current paper is not to posit ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ as two competing paradigms. It only argues that a frugality lens helps us to better appreciate the strengths of a bottom-up approach for effective policy formulation, an appreciation of which would promote a dignified marriage between the two perspectives.

节约和跨部门粮食安全政策制定
对粮食安全的日益关注,特别是在世界上处于不利地位的区域,往往指出在解决农业问题方面采用严格的部门办法是不够的。这种政策方法与全球、自上而下、正式、科学驱动的农业发展的兴起相吻合。随着时间的推移,这些干预措施受到了来自多个方面的批评,认为它们没有充分解决制度背景下地方差异的需要。本文的目的是采用自下而上的观点来解决粮食安全政策跨部门性的需要。可持续农村生计(SRL)和基层创新(GI)是两个公认的思想流派,它们强调跨部门的生计方法和地方层面的问题解决。通过拥抱节俭的镜头,我们可以在SRL和GI学派所强调的行为和决策模式中提供概念上的规律性。更进一步,节俭的视角通过关注决策在实际环境中的有用性,强调需要更好地诊断地方机构。然而,请注意,当前论文的论点并不是将“自上而下”和“自下而上”假设为两个相互竞争的范式。它只是认为,节俭的视角有助于我们更好地认识到自下而上的有效政策制定方法的优势,认识到这一点,将促进两种观点之间有尊严的结合。
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Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 农林科学-农业综合
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期刊介绍: The NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, published since 1952, is the quarterly journal of the Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences. NJAS aspires to be the main scientific platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on complex and persistent problems in agricultural production, food and nutrition security and natural resource management. The societal and technical challenges in these domains require research integrating scientific disciplines and finding novel combinations of methodologies and conceptual frameworks. Moreover, the composite nature of these problems and challenges fits transdisciplinary research approaches embedded in constructive interactions with policy and practice and crossing the boundaries between science and society. Engaging with societal debate and creating decision space is an important task of research about the diverse impacts of novel agri-food technologies or policies. The international nature of food and nutrition security (e.g. global value chains, standardisation, trade), environmental problems (e.g. climate change or competing claims on natural resources), and risks related to agriculture (e.g. the spread of plant and animal diseases) challenges researchers to focus not only on lower levels of aggregation, but certainly to use interdisciplinary research to unravel linkages between scales or to analyse dynamics at higher levels of aggregation. NJAS recognises that the widely acknowledged need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, also increasingly expressed by policy makers and practitioners, needs a platform for creative researchers and out-of-the-box thinking in the domains of agriculture, food and environment. The journal aims to offer space for grounded, critical, and open discussions that advance the development and application of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research methodologies in the agricultural and life sciences.
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