Wendy M.N. Jenkins , Luisa M. Trindade , Stacy Pyett , Barbara van Mierlo , David Welch , Hannah H.E. van Zanten
{"title":"Will the protein transition lead to sustainable food systems?","authors":"Wendy M.N. Jenkins , Luisa M. Trindade , Stacy Pyett , Barbara van Mierlo , David Welch , Hannah H.E. van Zanten","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100809","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100809","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The term protein transition has gained increasing attention but what it concretely means is often unclear. We propose the protein transition to be a transition of the production, division, and consumption of animal derived products, how to reduce them and what could replace them to improve healthfulness, reduce environmental impact, and increase ethical aspects of food production. Proposed solutions including high-tech meat and dairy replacement strategies, plant breeding strategies, animal production strategies, and production systems strategies, are promising but face the risk for un-intended negative consequences. To achieve a sustainable food system utilizing the proposed solutions: animal derived products in high-income countries must be reduced, a whole diet approach is necessary, pathways for implementation must be better explored, and a food systems transformation supported by policy will ultimately be required.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100809"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142442768","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}
C. Halpern , K. Kennedy Freeman , C.B. Barrett , M. van Dijk , D. Mason-D’Croz , A. Simons , B. van Veen , M. Herrero , H.H.E. Van Zanten
{"title":"Perspective paper: Framework to assess the potential of circular food system technologies","authors":"C. Halpern , K. Kennedy Freeman , C.B. Barrett , M. van Dijk , D. Mason-D’Croz , A. Simons , B. van Veen , M. Herrero , H.H.E. Van Zanten","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100814","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100814","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The circular bioeconomy has been identified as a paradigm useful in transforming food systems to a more sustainable state. However, there is no clear method to identify in which cases circular technologies are preferential over existing conventional practices and how to compare circular technologies against each other in a portfolio of technologies. In this Perspective, we present a framework to assess the potential of circular food system technologies, summarized in a matrix to assign clear policy and adoption priorities. We then use this framework to compare the net market and spillover benefits of three case studies of circular technologies: low-opportunity cost feeds in egg production systems in the Netherlands, biodigesters on dairy farms in Uruguay, and bonechar fertilizer production in Ethiopia. Our framework offers a starting point for future research and policy in adopting circular food system technologies in the food system.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100814"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142438471","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}
Benjamin Davis , Ana Paula de la O Campos , Mohammad Farrae , Paul Winters
{"title":"Whither the agricultural productivity-led model? Reconsidering resilient and inclusive rural transformation in the context of agrifood systems","authors":"Benjamin Davis , Ana Paula de la O Campos , Mohammad Farrae , Paul Winters","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100812","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100812","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agriculture has long been conceived as central to structural and rural transformation with agricultural productivity growth seen as a driving factor of economic growth and development. Promoting agricultural productivity has also been seen as fundamental to an inclusive process of rural transformation. The changing conditions faced by developing countries, combined with interregional inequality within middle-income nations and the urgent need to tackle climate change and ensure access to healthy diets further questions the relevance of the agricultural productivity-led model for promoting resilient and inclusive rural transformation. This paper argues that there remains an urgent need to enhance productivity in agriculture and agrifood systems, where relevant, for resilient and inclusive rural development. However, this effort requires a fundamentally new approach recognizing agriculture's heterogeneous roles and embedding inclusion more explicitly and more effectively to ensure widespread benefits and sustainable growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100812"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142421877","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}
Morgan Rivers , Michael Hinge , Kevin Rassool , Simon Blouin , Florian U. Jehn , Juan B. García Martínez , Vasco Amaral Grilo , Victor Jaeck , Ross J. Tieman , James Mulhall , Talib E. Butt , David C. Denkenberger
{"title":"Food system adaptation and maintaining trade could mitigate global famine in abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios","authors":"Morgan Rivers , Michael Hinge , Kevin Rassool , Simon Blouin , Florian U. Jehn , Juan B. García Martínez , Vasco Amaral Grilo , Victor Jaeck , Ross J. Tieman , James Mulhall , Talib E. Butt , David C. Denkenberger","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100807","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100807","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>After a major nuclear war, volcanic eruption or asteroid or comet impact that causes an abrupt sunlight reduction scenario, agricultural yields would plummet. We analyzed a nuclear winter scenario involving the injection of 150 Tg of soot in the stratosphere using a linear optimization model with and without global food trade. We investigated the effects of loss of global food trade, some simple adaptations like rationing and storage of excess food for the coldest years, and rapid, large-scale deployment of food sources which are less dependent on present day climate (so called resilient foods) including cool tolerant crops, methane single cell protein, lignocellulosic sugar, greenhouse crops, and seaweed. In the worst case of no global food trade and no adaptations, the model predicts a global famine. However, scaling up resilient foods quickly could mitigate this for many countries. Maintaining global food trade would further alleviate pressure on local food systems, unlocking the potential to feed the entire global population. However, insufficient preparation, post-disaster conflict, or economic collapse would worsen outcomes and hinder adaptation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100807"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142311887","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":"Informal pandemic precarity and migrant food enterprise in South Africa during COVID-19","authors":"Jonathan Crush , Godfrey Tawodzera","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100804","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100804","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100804"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221191242400066X/pdfft?md5=26bbf847b624cdab6525d539e2da6cd1&pid=1-s2.0-S221191242400066X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142240397","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":"‘Road runners’ and Fanta: Intersectional cultural food in/security among Zimbabwean migrants living in UK cities","authors":"Kavita Datta , Tim Brown , Thabani Mutambasere","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100805","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100805","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The incidence of food insecurity among migrant and diasporic communities living in rich global North cities is growing. A key dimension of this is the absence of culturally appropriate food which is integral to both feeding <em>and</em> nourishing mobile bodies. In this paper, we deploy an intersectional approach to cultural food in/security to explore the foodscapes of Zimbabwean communities living in British cities. We unpack how and why food cultures are critical in shaping migrant experiences of food in/security and the diversification of food cultures over time and place and mediated by intersectional subjectivities. We map local, regional and transnational food supply chains as migrants seek to redress issues of access and availability to source foods familiar to them to maintain the cultural significance of food and food practices within families and diaspora communities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100805"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000671/pdfft?md5=e9d2ada499cb68a298b49509d92351ca&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000671-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142240396","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":"Agricultural and rural development interventions and poverty reduction: Global evidence from 16 impact assessment studies","authors":"Marup Hossain, Vibhuti Mendiratta, Sara Savastano","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100806","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100806","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agricultural and rural development interventions can reduce global poverty by providing growth-oriented tools, including access to finance, training, and markets. While such interventions effectively reduce monetary poverty (e.g., $1 a day poverty line), there is increasing interest in incorporating non-monetary poverty indicators, such as education, health, and living standards, to capture inherent multidimensionality in poverty. This study analyzes data from 16 impact evaluation studies conducted between 2019 and 2023 to examine whether and to what extent agricultural and rural development interventions affect multidimensional poverty of small-scale producers. Our analysis shows a 4 percent reduction in multidimensional poverty for treatment households compared to comparison households. Our findings suggest that agricultural and rural development interventions play a positive role in reducing poverty and have the potential to improve the long-term well-being of poor households.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100806"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142240395","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}
Erika Országh , Constanza De Matteu Monteiro , Sara M. Pires , Ákos Jóźwiak , Stéphan Marette , Jeanne-Marie Membré , Rodney J. Feliciano
{"title":"Holistic risk assessments of food systems","authors":"Erika Országh , Constanza De Matteu Monteiro , Sara M. Pires , Ákos Jóźwiak , Stéphan Marette , Jeanne-Marie Membré , Rodney J. Feliciano","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100802","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100802","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Food systems are composed of interrelated activities that transform agricultural products into food. Their operations need to meet several food security, food safety, and sustainability requirements. Therefore, risk assessment of food systems must be multidisciplinary and include food safety, nutrition, environmental, economics, and social criteria. However, combining these criteria to assess multiple impacts remains a challenge in complex and multi-stakeholder systems. Until now, only a few holistic assessments, whether domain-oriented or generic and with different levels of quantification, have covered all criteria and the whole food systems. We reviewed and presented the various assessment methods and their applications in food systems, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. Recommendations were made for a tiered approach combining different holistic assessment methods.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100802"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000646/pdfft?md5=1cc2eee60423c768fe071198ac4b1b10&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000646-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142162793","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":"Analyzing diet cost and affordability: A dataset from Fill the Nutrient Gap analyses (2015–2021)","authors":"Zuzanna Turowska , Janosch Klemm , Saskia de Pee","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100798","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100798","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Between 2015 and 2021, the World Food Programme (WFP) carried out “Fill the Nutrient Gap” (FNG) analyses in 37 countries. Apart from a few early FNG analyses, each analysis calculated the cost of energy-sufficient diets, staple-adjusted nutrient-adequate diets, and the non-affordability of the latter at the subnational level during a specific period decided by in-country stakeholders and data availability. In 2021–2022, all FNG output data were compiled into one dataset, which is provided as an online supplement to this paper. Here, we describe the parameters and data used in these FNG analyses and the process for standardizing diet costs for time (to January 2020) and in currency (PPP USD and MER USD). The objective of this paper was to provide the dataset utilized in the other papers in this GFS special issue on diet cost and affordability analyses conducted as part of FNG analyses by WFP and partners, and to provide a description of the considerations and methods employed for compiling this dataset.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100798"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000609/pdfft?md5=6110a1e62cca42e56cd12ab6943d436e&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000609-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142167504","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}