Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment最新文献

Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation

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Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100835

Francesco Maria Pierri, Ward Anseeuw, Adriano Campolina

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Employment impacts of agrifood system innovations and policies: A review of the evidence

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Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100832

Julio A. Berdegué , Carolina Trivelli , Rob Vos

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Top-down vs bottom-up processes: A systematic review clarifying roles and patterns of interactions in food system transformation

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Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100833

Costanza Conti , Andy Hall , Enayat A. Moallemi , Amar Laila , Christophe Bene , Jessica Fanzo , Matthew Ford Gibson , Line Gordon , Christina Hicks , Kristiaan Kok , Nitya Rao , Ramanan Laxminarayan , Daniel Mason-D'Croz

{"title":"Top-down vs bottom-up processes: A systematic review clarifying roles and patterns of interactions in food system transformation","authors":"Costanza Conti , Andy Hall , Enayat A. Moallemi , Amar Laila , Christophe Bene , Jessica Fanzo , Matthew Ford Gibson , Line Gordon , Christina Hicks , Kristiaan Kok , Nitya Rao , Ramanan Laxminarayan , Daniel Mason-D'Croz","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100833","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100833","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urgent calls for food system transformation have spurred a variety of responses globally. In some cases, these calls have been answered through top-down led processes, driven by public agencies to design and implement measures that can drive societies towards more viable patterns of development. In other cases, transformation processes have been ignited by community level actors who addressed sustainability issues with context-specific solutions. The broad range of actors raises the question of whether it is top-down or bottom-up processes and actors that are better placed to deliver the fundamental and system level changes that characterise transformation. Through a systematic review, we identified 40 case studies across 24 countries to investigate the role of top<strong>-</strong>down or bottom-up processes in transformation, whether the two might intertwine, and with what results. We propose five different types of interactions: Autonomous Bottom-Up, Collaborative Bottom-Up, Top-Down Struggles and Resourceful Bottom-Up, Collaborative Top-Down and Transformation Alliances. Based on our analysis, we propose a new heuristic of roles and interactions between different actors. We suggest a shift from dichotomic views on top-down and bottom-up actor roles towards the concept of “transformation functions,” which would re-centre the discussion around the existing or needed capabilities for transformation in different contexts. Finally, we call for further research to determine how different transformation functions need to become more synchronised -or coordinated-to accelerate transformation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100833"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143394961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Trade-offs for healthy and sustainable diets in Europe: Social-ecological dynamics in an intensive agricultural system

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Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100829

Jiménez-Aceituno A. , López-Rodríguez M.D. , Castro A.J. , Cortés-Calderón S. , Collste D. , Aparicio G. , Rölfer L. , Bote M.A. , Marín L. , Gómez-Tenorio M.A. , González-Martín B.

{"title":"Trade-offs for healthy and sustainable diets in Europe: Social-ecological dynamics in an intensive agricultural system","authors":"Jiménez-Aceituno A. , López-Rodríguez M.D. , Castro A.J. , Cortés-Calderón S. , Collste D. , Aparicio G. , Rölfer L. , Bote M.A. , Marín L. , Gómez-Tenorio M.A. , González-Martín B.","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100829","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100829","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food production and trade are key drivers of environmental change worldwide. Global initiatives emphasize the need to shift towards healthier and more sustainable diets, with increased consumption of fruits and vegetables (F&V). However, F&V cultivation relies on diverse high-value crop species that often require intensive fertilization and irrigation for optimum yield and quality, as well as a large labor force. This generates trade-offs across scales between the impacts in the production regions and the global need to increase F&V production. Through multi-actor dialogues, we analysed the social-ecological dynamics of the F&V agriculture system in Southeast Spain, which crucially supplies F&V to Northern Europe. Using a new approach combining the 3Horizons method and system thinking tools, our results reveal the agricultural system's context-specific structures as a foundation for exploring transformative opportunities. We found that the agricultural system a) is sustained in a governance model that lacks cooperation and fosters polarized views, 2) surpasses the biophysical limits, and 3) relies on immigrant low-wage labor. Additionally, our results underscore the need to share the responsibilities and costs of the food-system transformation across the supply chain actors, focusing on the potential of retailers, governance institutions at multiple scales, collective structures of farmer producers, and auxiliary industries to support sustainable and just transformative changes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100829"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Severe food insecurity among middle-aged and older adults in India: Insights from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India

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Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100822

Ravi Sadhu , Rockli Kim , S.V. Subramanian

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Time to transform? Sustainability narratives for European food systems

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Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100831

V. Guerrieri , S. Borchardt , G. Listorti , L. Marelli , M. Vittuari

{"title":"Time to transform? Sustainability narratives for European food systems","authors":"V. Guerrieri , S. Borchardt , G. Listorti , L. Marelli , M. Vittuari","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100831","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100831","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The unsustainable nature of prevailing food systems contributes to drive humanity out of a safe operating space. Despite recognising the need for food systems transformation, its direction diverges into different sustainability narratives and conflicting objectives resulting in disjoint policy agendas and problem definitions. While few studies compared and identified gaps and trade-offs in food systems frameworks, systematic reviews for conceptualising sustainable food systems remain scarce. Focusing on the European context, we investigated how academics framed sustainability narratives and their role in advancing Sustainable Development Goals targets, exploring lock-ins and leverage points for food system transformation. By conducting a PRISMA systematic scoping review and analysing 94 documents, we found disparities in current research with socio-economic and cross-cutting aspects comparatively overlooked to environmental and health ones. Linking sustainability objectives to 55 SDG targets we demonstrated their potential contributions to sustainable development by addressing systemic conceptualisations and acknowledging trade-offs. We identified lack of vision and coordination among stakeholders and institutional framework shortcomings as barriers to change. Analysis of leverage points suggested stakeholder engagement and system transparency as pivotal for transformation. Last, we draw concrete implications for science and policy agendas to shape a food systems transformation grounded in a shared sustainability paradigm forged through collaborative efforts among scientific, policy, and societal domains.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100831"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143296487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Local food system resilience in China integrating supply and demand

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Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100830

Xinyuan Liang , Yue Dou , Robert Ohuru , Rolf de By , Xiaobin Jin , Shuyi Feng , Fei Meng , Yinkang Zhou

{"title":"Local food system resilience in China integrating supply and demand","authors":"Xinyuan Liang , Yue Dou , Robert Ohuru , Rolf de By , Xiaobin Jin , Shuyi Feng , Fei Meng , Yinkang Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100830","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100830","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The extent to which the food supply aligns with the food and nutrition demand is unclear, which is crucial during crises like the COVID pandemic. Here, we present a geospatial framework integrating 3.8 million road segments for evaluating the food system resilience in alignment with Chinese dietary requirements. Results reveal that China faces challenges in achieving complete local self-sufficiency in specific foods and heavily relies on large-scale transport in a north-south direction. When comparing actual consumption to the ideal dietary requirements, there is average increased pressure of 6.1% in food transport intensity (i.e., from 0.6% in staples to 11% in oilseeds). Nevertheless, China's diverse food supply chain is rich, and the food system in the southeastern coastal cities (46% of all) is highly resilient, but resilience decreases from east to west. In the future, policymakers should prioritize local food distribution by building a centrally coordinated-locally autonomous supply and marketing network.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100830"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Using aspect-based sentiment analysis to evaluate the global effects of the food security crisis during the Russia-Ukraine war

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Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100828

Osman Aygun , Irfan Aygun , Mehmet Kaya

{"title":"Using aspect-based sentiment analysis to evaluate the global effects of the food security crisis during the Russia-Ukraine war","authors":"Osman Aygun , Irfan Aygun , Mehmet Kaya","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100828","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100828","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The war that broke out between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022 has left many countries facing difficult challenges, one of which has been the escalation of global food security issues. This study examines how the conditions of war negatively reflect on food security and how social media posts collected from different countries around the world were used to categorize and examine societal concerns following the war. Concerns and reasons were analyzed based on countries using an aspect-based sentiment analysis using a sentiment classifier with the BERT architecture. In Africa and the Middle East, societal concerns are centered around the possibility of not accessing food and potential famine; other analyses conducted in these countries indicate that access to products such as bread, baby food, animal products (milk, cheese, etc.), pasta, and many other categories have become significantly challenging. A large portion of the world views the food security crisis caused by the war as potentially leading to economic problems and famine. Social media posts from Poland, especially, in Central and Eastern European countries are intensely focused on economic issues. The sentiment analysis studies show that the Black Sea Grain Initiative, aimed at securing food security between the two countries, increased positive sentiments globally by up to 24%. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to identify concerns stated at the societal level worldwide on food security and measure objectives by country. This study presents findings that can develop projections for assessing concerns reflected in society regarding food security and formulating alternative plans, contributing to many countries in this regard.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100828"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Protecting child nutrition and fishery ecosystems: A cluster controlled trial in coastal Kenya

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Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100826

Lora L. Iannotti , Andrew Wamukota , Elizabeth Kamau-Mbuthia , Carolyn Lesorogol , Ivy Blackmore , Lisa Sherburne , Catherine Sarange , Francis Mbogholi , Clay Obata , Christopher Cheupe , Joaquim Cheupe , Emma Strand , Sydney Vie , Pranav Nandan , Rachel Zimmerman , Austin Humphries

{"title":"Protecting child nutrition and fishery ecosystems: A cluster controlled trial in coastal Kenya","authors":"Lora L. Iannotti , Andrew Wamukota , Elizabeth Kamau-Mbuthia , Carolyn Lesorogol , Ivy Blackmore , Lisa Sherburne , Catherine Sarange , Francis Mbogholi , Clay Obata , Christopher Cheupe , Joaquim Cheupe , Emma Strand , Sydney Vie , Pranav Nandan , Rachel Zimmerman , Austin Humphries","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100826","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100826","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Globally, food production and food systems can harm ecosystems by depleting resources and creating imbalances in food webs. Over 148 million young children around the world are chronically malnourished, with disproportionate numbers coming from small-scale food producing households. Here we show in a community-based trial in coastal Kenya that child nutrition and the availability of sustainably harvested fish were improved through an integrated strategy. This longitudinal, cluster-designed study compared outcomes across groups: 1) control (n = 200 households, 41 fisher trips); 2) social marketing for behavior change among caregivers and fishers (n = 100 households, 118 fisher trips); and 3) social marketing plus modified fishing gear (traps with gaps for juveniles to escape; n = 100 households, 73 fisher trips). Child growth in stature (height-for-age Z score) was significantly increased in the intervention arms relative to control, supported by findings for increased dietary diversity, child fish consumption, and take-home catch (kg). Fish were significantly longer (cm) in arm 3 (social marketing plus modified traps) relative to arm 2 (social marketing), leading to increased nutrients from fish available for consumption. This study advances public health and fisheries disciplines by demonstrating that human and environmental health may be simultaneously achieved through context-responsive, integrated strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100826"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Innovation and technology for achieving resilient and inclusive rural transformation

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Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100827

Preetmoninder Lidder, Andrea Cattaneo, Mona Chaya

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