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{"title":"Resilience of food supply systems to sudden shocks: A global review and narrative synthesis","authors":"Iona Y. Huang ,&nbsp;Oscar A. Forero ,&nbsp;Erika V. Wagner-Medina ,&nbsp;Hernando Florez Diaz ,&nbsp;Ourania Tremma ,&nbsp;Xavier Fargetton ,&nbsp;James Lowenberg-DeBoer","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100842","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100842","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global food supply systems (FSS) are increasingly tested by sudden shocks such as pandemics, geopolitical conflicts, and extreme weather events, that demand adaptive and transformative responses. This systematic review analyses 26 empirical studies published between 2016 and 2023, each examining an abrupt disruption in FSS. Of these, 22 focus on exposure to COVID-19 and four on natural disasters. Findings reveal that the most resilient food supply systems are those that combine strong operational, relational, and structural attributes with well-developed capacities at each shock phase (pre-, during-, and post-). These elements, taken together, not only enable effective recovery (returning to near-normal function) but also foster adaptation (dynamic adjustments to new conditions) and transformational shifts (permanent, beneficial reconfigurations) whenever disruptive events strike. However, many studies indicate that the capacity to “bounce forward” remains limited: short-term coping actions are often not converted into long-term structural reforms. This gap is particularly noticeable in settings with weak policy frameworks or resource constraints, undermining broader resilience gains. Although FSS often exhibit significant adaptability during disruptions, deeper transformation requires sustained efforts and alignment among governmental, private-sector, and community actors. The integrated framework of resilience proposed in this review clarifies how attributes underpin capacities that, when activated through concrete actions, shape resilience outcomes. By emphasising both short-term coping and long-term systemic change, stakeholders can strengthen future resilience strategies across diverse FSS contexts. Enhanced conceptual clarity, multi-scalar approaches, and expanded empirical evidence are crucial for guiding policy and practice, ultimately enabling FSS to withstand and learn from sudden shocks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100842"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143552334","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":"What policy support do smallholders in high-income countries need to contribute to healthy, sustainable food systems? A scoping review","authors":"Kerri-Anne Gill ,&nbsp;Navid Teimouri ,&nbsp;Jessica Bogard ,&nbsp;Katherine Cullerton","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100839","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100839","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global food systems face complex challenges and need to transform to meet increasing demand for food, sustainably. Smallholders are a significant population of food producers and need to be considered in this transformation. However, international policy advice and much of the existing research has focused only on smallholders in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) without considering what support smallholders in high-income countries (HICs) need, or currently receive.</div><div>A systematic scoping review was undertaken to identify peer-reviewed articles describing needs of, and public policies supporting, smallholders in HICs, from four databases. Fifty-six articles were included in the review. Needs and policy recommendations extracted from these articles were compared to a framework developed by thematically analysing three policy advice documents from FAO’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to isolate 13 specific policy recommendations.</div><div>The scoping review found support among HIC smallholders for ten of the 13 CFS recommendations but no support for developing a broad smallholder vision or policy, maintaining smallholder data systems or using public procurement to support smallholders. Eight additional needs were elicited from the data that were not identified in CFS advice.</div><div>This study highlights gaps between HIC smallholder needs, existing policies and international policy advice with implications for policy, namely, that policymakers should collaborate with smallholders to develop simple, targeted policies and focus on strengthening rural communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100839"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143534434","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":"Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances","authors":"Sean T. Sithole ,&nbsp;Daniel Tevera ,&nbsp;Mulugeta F. Dinbabo","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100843","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100843","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cross-border food remittances contribute to household food security in the receiving countries in the Global South. This paper draws on recent research on Zimbabwean cross-border food remittances from South Africa to Zimbabwe to explore the impact on food security back home. This is achieved by examining food remittance flows from South Africa through digital channels and informal land corridors using cross-border transporters. The paper discusses both the recent widespread use of digital and mobile technology-based pathways and other traditional channels to remit food back home to Zimbabwe and the factors that have contributed to the shift. The study is based on a desktop methodology that involves an in-depth analysis of peer-reviewed journal articles and reports on food remittances by Zimbabwean migrants based in South Africa. The findings reveal complex and interesting insights into past and current cross-border food flows. First, the food remitting channels are diverse and include hybrid food remitting processes. Second, cross-border food remittances impact local food systems, although households with family members in the diaspora generally enjoy improved food and nutrition security. The paper also examines the impact of the shift to digital food transfers on households, cross-border food transfers, and local food producers, particularly in terms of accessibility, affordability, and nutritional diversity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100843"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143519478","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":"Water-cropland resources and agricultural management shape the main interactions with food self-sufficiency goals","authors":"Achraf Mamassi ,&nbsp;Nicolas Guilpart ,&nbsp;Lucile Muneret ,&nbsp;Francesco Accatino","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100841","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100841","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Regional and national food policies must seek to attain equilibrium among social, economic, political, agricultural, and environmental factors. As a developmental objective, food self-sufficiency (FSS) responds to a region's need for increased autonomy and control over its own food supply. In this systematic review, we employed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol to assess the state of the art, then, we explored 109 final selected studies, focusing on the main interactions associated to achieving FSS goals. We found that FSS objectives can be realised through context-dependent interactions with 47 identified factors. The main limitations associated with attaining FSS goals emerge from the confluence of trade-offs with water and agricultural land. The positive interplay between FSS and agricultural management highlights the synergies that result from adopting advanced sustainable technologies and practices and optimizing resource-use efficiency, which holds promise for achieving FSS goals. We identified a shortage of studies focusing on food consumption, distribution, and access related factors, despite their relevance in promoting FSS and food security. We identified four primary developmental strategies rooted in local agricultural management practices, each aimed at addressing the achievement of FSS goals while mitigating associated trade-offs: cropland expansion/cropland-water resource management, yield gap closure, cropping systems diversification/integrated crop management, and urban agriculture. In conclusion, identifying factors that limit or strengthen FSS can help to facilitate the transition away from siloed government strategies to arbitrate between different holistic development strategies according to local contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100841"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143478664","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":"The role of social protection in achieving resilient and inclusive rural transformation","authors":"Mari Kangasniemi ,&nbsp;Garima Bhalla ,&nbsp;Marco Knowles ,&nbsp;Karen Codazzi Pereira ,&nbsp;Ugo Gentilini","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100836","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100836","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural and structural transformation can lead to large improvements in welfare, but the outcomes depend on the inclusivity of transformation processes. Climate change, transitions to low productivity employment and divergent nutrition trends make resilient and inclusive transformation increasingly challenging to achieve. By bringing together findings on the diverse range of impacts of social protection from different strains of literature, this paper argues that social protection can make rural transformation more resilient and inclusive through two key pathways: i) increased human capital including healthy diets and nutrition and ii) improved resource allocation and risk management. However, this requires implementing social protection as an integral part of rural transformation policies, expansion of social protection coverage to enhance resilience and inclusivity and acknowledging trade-offs from multiple policy objectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100836"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143478665","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":"Gender-responsiveness of agricultural policy: An analysis in low-and middle-income countries","authors":"Mariola Acosta,&nbsp;Martha Osorio,&nbsp;Ivanna Valverde,&nbsp;Silvia Vilimelis,&nbsp;Matilde Polli,&nbsp;Libor Stloukal,&nbsp;Lauren M. Phillips","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100837","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100837","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100837"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143463428","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":"Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation","authors":"Francesco Maria Pierri,&nbsp;Ward Anseeuw,&nbsp;Adriano Campolina","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100835","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100835","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While land distribution and tenure security are being recognized as drivers of resilience and inclusive rural transformation, today many rural poor in low- and middle-income countries struggle for land. Pressures on and competition for land have increased under simultaneous processes of population growth, agro-extractive business interests and practices, and climate change. Trends in land concentration on one hand and land fragmentation on the other hand are leading to land scarcity for the rural poor, while non-farm employment prospects remain isolated. By reviewing the literature and discussing global land trends, we argue that policies for expanding access to land (including redistributive reforms) and tenure security (overall and of collective rights over forests and other biodiverse land held by Indigenous Peoples and other traditional communities in particular) are all the more relevant for inclusive rural transformation in the present context. By recognising that these land reform measures need to be accompanied by complementary support services and policies, the paper concludes by identifying key policy recommendations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100835"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143437767","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":"Employment impacts of agrifood system innovations and policies: A review of the evidence","authors":"Julio A. Berdegué ,&nbsp;Carolina Trivelli ,&nbsp;Rob Vos","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100832","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100832","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100832"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143402966","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":"Top-down vs bottom-up processes: A systematic review clarifying roles and patterns of interactions in food system transformation","authors":"Costanza Conti ,&nbsp;Andy Hall ,&nbsp;Enayat A. Moallemi ,&nbsp;Amar Laila ,&nbsp;Christophe Bene ,&nbsp;Jessica Fanzo ,&nbsp;Matthew Ford Gibson ,&nbsp;Line Gordon ,&nbsp;Christina Hicks ,&nbsp;Kristiaan Kok ,&nbsp;Nitya Rao ,&nbsp;Ramanan Laxminarayan ,&nbsp;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}

{"title":"Trade-offs for healthy and sustainable diets in Europe: Social-ecological dynamics in an intensive agricultural system","authors":"Jiménez-Aceituno A. ,&nbsp;López-Rodríguez M.D. ,&nbsp;Castro A.J. ,&nbsp;Cortés-Calderón S. ,&nbsp;Collste D. ,&nbsp;Aparicio G. ,&nbsp;Rölfer L. ,&nbsp;Bote M.A. ,&nbsp;Marín L. ,&nbsp;Gómez-Tenorio M.A. ,&nbsp;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&amp;V). However, F&amp;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&amp;V production. Through multi-actor dialogues, we analysed the social-ecological dynamics of the F&amp;V agriculture system in Southeast Spain, which crucially supplies F&amp;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}