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

{"title":"Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts","authors":"Antoine Libert-Amico,&nbsp;Rebeca Koloffon","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100849","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100849","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>After steadily declining for years on a global level, food crises driven by conflict, climate extremes and economic downturns have marked an increase in the number of people who face hunger and malnutrition since 2015. Food crises are leading countries far off-track from achieving food security and improved nutrition by 2030, as set out in Sustainable Development Goal 2. Conventional approaches to rural transformation driven by enhanced agricultural productivity have not rendered the needed results, heading the call for inclusive agrifood system transformation that focuses on resilience, particularly in crisis contexts. However, obstacles such as fragile institutions, conflict and violence and recurring shocks and stresses hinder investing in crisis contexts and threaten transformation pathways in agrifood systems. This paper describes synergies between humanitarian, development, peace and climate interventions that can be leveraged to direct investments in a comprehensive set of resilience building interventions along the agricultural sectors and food system livelihoods to contribute to sustainably address hunger and malnutrition in food crisis countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100849"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143834496","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}

{"title":"Why do epidemics cause more hunger even when global food production is unaffected?","authors":"Binlei Gong ,&nbsp;Shouhan Dai ,&nbsp;Shuo Wang ,&nbsp;Xinjie Shi ,&nbsp;Biao Huang ,&nbsp;Kevin Z. Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100848","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100848","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An apparent paradox is that, sufficient food is currently being produced to feed the global population, yet there has been a rising hunger in many parts of the world. An explanation that has been advanced in the literature lies in unfair food distribution within a specific region. However, empirical evidence regarding how infectious diseases influence people's food availability from a global food distribution perspective is still lacking. This paper aims to provide empirical evidence through investigating the effect of infectious diseases on hunger from the perspective of global food distribution. Using a panel data for 105 countries over the period of 1990–2016, we find that infectious diseases had no significant impact on overall global food production, but they caused more severe hunger in many countries or regions. How is that possible? The mechanism analysis shows that there was an increased flow of food from developing countries to developed countries during epidemics. Meanwhile, developing countries failed to compensate for this shortfall through either food stock or food aid, resulting in a reduced availability of food for domestic consumption. We find that epidemics caused higher domestic food prices and reduced affordability of food, which further exacerbated food insecurity and malnutrition in developing countries. To achieve the 2030 SDGs goal of Zero Hunger, it is critical to improve global food governance and enhance food distribution when facing a crisis such as epidemics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100848"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143839469","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}

{"title":"Nutritious monocultures? Where and how fruits and vegetables are produced in the US","authors":"Kaitlyn Spangler ,&nbsp;Andrea Rissing ,&nbsp;Emily K. Burchfield ,&nbsp;Britta L. Schumacher ,&nbsp;Bronwen Powell ,&nbsp;Karen R. Siegel","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100860","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100860","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The United States (US) agri-food system is primarily oriented toward growing grain for livestock, biofuels, and other highly processed byproducts that cause concern for human and environmental health. Simultaneously, the US is in a trade deficit, importing three times as many fruits and vegetables as it exports. Those fruits and vegetables that are produced in the US rely on precarious labor systems and unsustainable costs to the wellbeing of farmers and farmworkers, exposing the fractures and precarity of these systems amidst changing trade agreements and immigration policies. To overcome these fractures, calls for more diverse and resilient food systems are increasingly urgent. Using national-scale agricultural and labor datasets, we ask: 1) How well do current US agricultural landscapes produce the fruits and vegetables needed for a healthy and diverse diet <em>at scale</em>? 2) How diverse are these landscapes? 3) How does migrant labor support fruit and vegetable production and diversity? We show that US agricultural landscapes are not producing the fruits and vegetables needed for a healthy and diverse diet. Fruit and vegetable production is concentrated on the coasts of the country and occupies little land, making it difficult to see, track, and understand on a national scale. Further, as the proportion of cropland under fruit and vegetable production increases, fruit and vegetable diversity decreases, suggesting that most fruits and vegetables are grown in simplified systems. Finally, counties with the highest proportion of fruit and vegetable production have the highest averages of H-2A farmworker certifications, emphasizing a disproportionate reliance on migrant labor as fruit and vegetable production expands. This study helps to disentangle the link between what we grow and what we eat in the US, tempering calls to increase fruit and vegetable production in the US writ large without reconciling the accumulating concerns of these current systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100860"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829876","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}

{"title":"Decreasing farm sizes and the viability of smallholder farmers: Implications for resilient and inclusive rural transformation","authors":"Sarah K. Lowder ,&nbsp;Garima Bhalla ,&nbsp;Benjamin Davis","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100854","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100854","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Smallholder farmers are key to achieving a more resilient and inclusive process of rural transformation in the developing world. This article reflects on trends in farm size and the implications for the viability of small-scale producers across the developing world within the context of resilient and inclusive rural transformation. While the farmland consolidation expected under structural transformation has occurred in high income countries, average farm sizes are decreasing across developing regions. Clearly, more is driving farm size than simply economic growth. Most smallholders struggle for viability in terms of earning a living income from farming alone. However, viability needs to be viewed through a broader perspective that considers the role of smallholder farming within diversified household livelihood and risk mitigation strategies and their social and environmental contributions, such as ecosystem services. Recognizing the multiple social and economic roles played by small farms helps explain the continued persistence and relevance of smallholders in the face of structural transformation in much of the developing world. Investment and policy and programmatic support focusing on both on-farm and off-farm interventions within a territorial approach are crucial to strengthening the role of smallholders in resilient and inclusive rural transformation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100854"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143817615","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}

{"title":"Diet cost and affordability metrics, their application today and in the future","authors":"Saskia de Pee ,&nbsp;Claudia Damu ,&nbsp;Frances Knight ,&nbsp;Jo Jacobsen","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100853","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100853","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100853"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143817614","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}

{"title":"Closing the gender gap in global food insecurity: Socioeconomic determinants and economic gains in the aftermath of COVID-19","authors":"Erdgin Mane ,&nbsp;Annarita Macchioni Giaquinto ,&nbsp;Carlo Cafiero ,&nbsp;Sara Viviani ,&nbsp;Gustavo Anríquez","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100850","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100850","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the socio-economic determinants of the gender gap in global food insecurity, analyzing data from 792,000 individuals across 137 countries, between 2014 and 2022. The findings reveal that women are consistently more likely than men to experience food insecurity, even after controlling for income, employment, education, and other factors. Moreover women, rural areas and younger adults, particularly those aged 15–24 and 25–34, have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. A macro-level analysis estimates that closing gender gaps in farm productivity and wages in agrifood systems could increase global GDP by nearly USD 1 trillion and reduce food insecurity for around 45 million people. At the micro-level, eliminating gender disparities in education, income, and labour-force participation could close 52 percent of the gender gap in food insecurity, with the remaining gap driven structural inequalities and discriminatory gender norms. These findings underscore the urgent need for gender-responsive policies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 2 on Zero Hunger.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100850"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143791762","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}

{"title":"From law to practice: A cross-country assessment of gender inequalities in rights to land","authors":"Vanya Slavchevska,&nbsp;Muriel Veldman,&nbsp;Clara Mi Young Park,&nbsp;Veronica Boero,&nbsp;Leman Yonca Gurbuzer,&nbsp;Annarita Macchioni Giaquinto","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100852","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100852","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study provides an up-to-date analysis of the status of women's land rights in the law and in practice globally using the most recent national statistics reported under the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5.a.1 and legal analyses of laws and policies in line with the SDG indicator 5.a.2. The study also analyses the discrepancy between women's formal rights to land and the reality on the ground and dives deeper in uncovering the factors that contribute to their effective attainment. The evidence shows that, globally, women continue to lag behind men in ownership and secure rights over land in both the law and practice. Joint land registration, participation in household and community decision-making in relation to land, equal inheritance and ensuring that the principle of non-discrimination and gender equality applies to customary law are all pivotal in advancing women's land rights. However, effective implementation mechanisms, including the allocation of adequate financial resources, are also needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100852"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143760836","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}

{"title":"Saving instruments and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of smallholder farmers in Mali","authors":"Anna Mader ,&nbsp;Tim Ölkers ,&nbsp;Oliver Mußhoff ,&nbsp;Sheila Sagbo","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100847","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100847","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food security is of high concern in Mali and throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Nonetheless, existing policies primarily target the health and agricultural sectors, overlooking potential benefits of financial sector development. We aim to fill this gap through a case study, relying on primary collected saving and food security data from smallholder farmers in Mali. By using ordinary least square models as well as an instrumental variable approach, we analyze the associations between farmers’ saving instruments and food security. We focus on four different saving instruments, including formal mechanisms such as bank accounts, semi-formal mechanisms such as mobile money, and informal mechanisms such as saving in secret hiding places, and with a trusted person. These four instruments are common in Mali and across Sub-Saharan Africa. The findings reveal heterogeneity in the choice of saving instruments and amounts and food security. Our contribution aims to inform decision makers on designing policies at the nexus of finance and agriculture, which is crucial for addressing the vulnerability of smallholder farmers. Since the severe nutritional situation in Mali is indicative of a crisis-affected region, our findings might be applicable to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa as well.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100847"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143725435","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}

{"title":"Context is key to understand and improve livestock production systems","authors":"Clare E. Kazanski ,&nbsp;Mulubhran Balehegn ,&nbsp;Kristal Jones ,&nbsp;Harriet Bartlett ,&nbsp;Alicia Calle ,&nbsp;Edenise Garcia ,&nbsp;Heidi-Jayne Hawkins ,&nbsp;Dianne Mayberry ,&nbsp;Eve McDonald-Madden ,&nbsp;Wilfred O. Odadi ,&nbsp;Jessica Zionts ,&nbsp;Michael Clark ,&nbsp;Tara Garnett ,&nbsp;Mario Herrero ,&nbsp;Hannah VanZanten ,&nbsp;John Ritten ,&nbsp;Giovanni Mallmann ,&nbsp;Matthew Tom Harrison ,&nbsp;Deborah Bossio ,&nbsp;Sasha Gennet","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100840","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100840","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ruminant livestock production is arguably the most varied, complex, impactful, and controversial land use sector of our global food system today. Despite calls for improved sustainability across the sector, progress has been limited. To advance effective solutions, there is a need to understand livestock systems and outcomes at regional scales, grounded enough in local conditions to be relevant, yet broad enough to be generalizable for policy or funding interventions. Using a comparative qualitative analysis of ten expert-led case studies from diverse agroecological regions and production systems around the world, we offer an updated approach to categorizing livestock systems, discuss relevant outcomes, and offer insight into the key contextual factors that influence current systems and potential for change. We find that in addition to livestock production system classes, economic (local, regional, and global economics and markets), environmental (biome suitability for ruminant grazing, land condition, precipitation), and social and cultural factors (land tenure, cultural embeddedness of livestock) are important to consider. Our case study analysis also shows that livestock management is typically motivated by at least five outcomes, with priority outcomes shifting from region to region, highlighting that livestock plays different roles, with different implications, in different places. We conclude that use of a context-based lens considering multiple outcomes and perspectives will likely improve the pace of progress toward environmental and social sustainability of livestock production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100840"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143642951","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}

{"title":"Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana","authors":"Ralph Armah ,&nbsp;Mary B. Setrana ,&nbsp;Peter Quartey ,&nbsp;Aba Crentsil ,&nbsp;Cynthia Addoquaye Tagoe ,&nbsp;Innocent Agbelie","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100846","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100846","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100846"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143619920","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}