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{"title":"Improved water management can increase food self-sufficiency in urban foodsheds of Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Christian Siderius ,&nbsp;Ype van der Velde ,&nbsp;Marijn Gülpen ,&nbsp;Sophie de Bruin ,&nbsp;Hester Biemans","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100787","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100787","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rising urban food demand in Sub-Saharan Africa will put pressure on local resource boundaries, such as the available land area and water resources. In assessing the extent to which urban centres can source from nearby areas in future, earlier analysis has concentrated on agronomic measures, aiming at yield gap closure. Here, we address the potential of local water conservation measures to help achieve food self-sufficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2061–2070, along the concept of urban ‘foodsheds’, matching crop-based food supply and demand in the surroundings of large cities for all major food groups. We find that ambitious but plausible levels of water conservation, primarily raising productivity on rainfed lands, have the potential to increase overall food production by 12% and food self-sufficiency levels in all major foodsheds to over 75%, with the region as a whole becoming self-sufficient. The increase in production could limit the projected required expansion of agricultural land use by more than 25%, which has important implications for biodiversity, land use-related conflicts and carbon sequestration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100787"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221191242400049X/pdfft?md5=522db39358d94b36c8eb24d2c88c8529&pid=1-s2.0-S221191242400049X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141780955","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":"Africanizing genome editing for food sustainability","authors":"Steven Runo ,&nbsp;Margaret Karembu ,&nbsp;Francis Nan'gayo ,&nbsp;Firew Mekbib ,&nbsp;Teklehaimanot Haileselassie ,&nbsp;Kassahun Tesfaye ,&nbsp;Jesse R. Lasky ,&nbsp;Huirong Gao ,&nbsp;Todd Jones","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100785","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100785","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Genome editing has great potential to alleviate the persistent food insecurity in Africa. However, achieving this goal is faced with a myriad of challenges. We describe components that we envisage are crucial in positioning Africa for an early commercial agricultural genome editing take-off. We review the evolving genome editing technologies based on CRISPR/Cas systems. We then present the status of research in genome editing to improve food sustainability in Africa, and its potential commercialization in the short-term.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100785"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000476/pdfft?md5=53554636204dd7bc1d33e1ed26c9b2c1&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000476-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141780839","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 climate-food-migration nexus: Critical perspectives","authors":"Megan A. Carney","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100786","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100786","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The global-industrial food system is both a major contributor to climate change and a cause of widespread human displacement. Despite evidence of the interrelationships among food insecurity, climate change, and migration, there has been surprisingly limited scholarly and policy attention to the structural conditions underlying these relationships. This paper foregrounds critical perspectives informed by abolition feminism to advance a framework for conceptualizing and addressing the climate-food-migration nexus. I discuss the histories of racial and gender violence that have yielded to today's global-industrial food system and its displacing effects, as well as the carceral logics that restrict movement and reinforce conditions of food and climate apartheid. I argue that abolition feminist theoretical perspectives are necessary for addressing the racialized and gendered dimensions of food insecurity in the broader contexts of climate change and displacement, and that abolition feminism opens possibilities for transformative agendas in the realms of research, pedagogy, and collective action.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100786"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141780957","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":"COVID-19 impact on food consumption of low-skilled employees in India","authors":"Bita Afsharinia ,&nbsp;Anjula Gurtoo","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100791","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100791","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected several aspects of daily life including economic, social, interpersonal, food and health. In India, low skilled employees experienced significantly higher levels of adversity including income loss and food security risks. This study investigates the relationship between pandemic led economic changes and food consumption among low-skilled employees, mediated by pandemic specific variables like government support and emotional distress. We argue and contend current literature provides a simple linear analysis between pandemic impacted economic status and food consumption. Several other significant variables in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic play a significant mediating role in the relationship.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>A longitudinal survey of 2830 low skill (unskilled and semi-skilled) employees during two time periods of July–November 2019 and December–January 2020-21 was conducted. The survey respondents included drivers, domestic workers, delivery personnels, beauticians, street vendors, small business owners, and self-employed individuals. Face-to-face interviews collected data on the variables under the UN Security Framework (2016) including economic, food, health, environment, personal, community, and political security. Paired t-tests analyzed the changes in economic status, Wilcoxon's signed rank test compared the food consumption scores (FCS), and Structural equation models (SEM) explored the direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic on food consumption.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The lockdown significantly reduced monthly earnings compared to pre-lockdown levels (p &lt; 00.001). FCS shifted towards borderline, indicating decreased dairy intake. SEM revealed indirect effects of economic status on food consumption through increased emotional distress, and insufficiency of government support for economic status and food consumption during the pandemic.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Tailored government programs are essential in addressing food insecurity among low employees. Priority should be given in addressing emotional distress during crises and reevaluate the role of government interventions on their effectiveness and reach. Reevaluating program fairness and increasing support for low-income employees are crucial steps in mitigating food insecurity risks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100791"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141780954","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":"Tertiary stakeholders in food systems analysis: A Northern Quebec (Canada) example","authors":"France Desjardins ,&nbsp;Pierre-André Tremblay ,&nbsp;Salmata Ouedraogo","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100790","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100790","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The linear analysis of agri-food activities and tertiary stakeholders exposes fragmented solutions to public decision makers and contributes to the persistence of food insecurity among eaters. This article offers a systemic analysis of the activities within a food system and the interdependencies between tertiary stakeholders, including consumers. This article summarizes some of the results of a descriptive qualitative study of a northern region of Quebec; it presents the various economic activities carried out and the consumers targeted. The systemic analysis makes it possible to identify the agri-food activities and the tertiary stakeholders that promote access to the foods desired by local eaters to counter food insecurity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100790"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141731894","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":"Fortified whole grains and whole blends: A timely food systems shift","authors":"Peiman Milani ,&nbsp;Lawrence Haddad ,&nbsp;Roy Steiner ,&nbsp;Penjani Mkambula ,&nbsp;Mehrdad Ehsani ,&nbsp;David Kamau ,&nbsp;Daniel Ndung'u ,&nbsp;Saskia de Pee","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100784","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100784","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Grains are central to food systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Their predominant consumption in refined form contributes to the double burden of malnutrition and wastes precious food and natural resources in a world challenged by growing food insecurity and accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss. Shifting consumption from refined grain foods to fortified whole grain and whole blend foods can improve food security and make diets healthier. This would also make food systems more efficient and resilient, and help mitigate the food crisis. School meal programs and other institutional and safety net markets offer the best entry points to initiate this necessary shift in food systems within LMICs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100784"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000464/pdfft?md5=d43983c918116d64c10580dae615ef89&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000464-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141638638","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":"An evaluative framework for inclusive agricultural value chain policies and interventions – Case: Mali","authors":"Mirja Michalscheck ,&nbsp;Sévérin Ekpe ,&nbsp;Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu ,&nbsp;Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi ,&nbsp;Minh Thi Thai","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100769","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Advancing food security requires multi-level and inclusive approaches. This article presents a novel framework to (E) evaluate the social inclusiveness of policies and interventions (PIs) towards (V) vulnerable social groups in (A) agricultural value chains. The EVA-framework is applicable to any value chain, geography and vulnerable group. We apply it to the irrigated vegetable value chain of Mali, analyzing the social inclusiveness of weighted PIs towards women and youth. We find that respective PI formulation in Mali is largely not inclusive. Only few PIs set specific targets, quotas or a financial budget for women and youth inclusion. To be inclusive PIs need to consult targeted social groups, include clear targets, budgets, and accountability mechanisms, and be monitored and evaluated.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100769"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141607749","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":"Incomplete documentation, social isolation, and culinary estrangement: Factors affecting food security among urban migrant populations in Mexico","authors":"Tiana Bakić Hayden","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100779","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper describes some of the factors that contribute to food insecurity among the growing populations of migrants who reside in Mexico City. It contributes to a growing body of literature that focuses on the relationship between migration and food security by qualitatively analyzing the specific challenges faced by migrants who are (semi)permanently settled in an urban area (rather than border region). The main argument of this paper is that although many of the challenges faced by migrants in terms of food insecurity are parallel to those faced by low-income citizens and internal migrants in Mexico City, migrants face unique challenges that contribute to their increased vulnerability. These challenges have political/bureaucratic, social, and economic dimensions. The paper argues that incomplete documentation, culinary estrangement and social isolation pose specific challenges to migrants that compound their difficulty in achieving individual and household food security.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100779"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141479438","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":"Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?","authors":"Brian Dowd-Uribe ,&nbsp;Genowefa Blundo-Canto ,&nbsp;Dominic Glover ,&nbsp;Sélim Louafi ,&nbsp;Helena Shilomboleni ,&nbsp;Joeva Sean Rock ,&nbsp;Enoch M. Kikulwe ,&nbsp;Klara Fischer ,&nbsp;Pierre-Benoît Joly","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100782","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How could we know if agricultural development interventions make contributions to sustainable development goals (SDGs)? Genetically engineered (GE) crops are celebrated as a class of technological interventions that can realize multiple SDGs. But recent studies have revealed the gap between GE crop program goals and the approaches used to assess their impacts. Using four comprehensive reviews of GE crop socio-economic impacts, we identify common shortcomings across three themes: (a) scope, (b) approaches and (c) heterogeneity. We find that the evaluation sciences literature offers alternative assessment approaches that can enable evaluators to better assess impacts, and inform learning and decision-making. We recommend the use of methods that enable evaluations to look beyond the agronomic and productive effects of individual traits to understand wider socio-economic effects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100782"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000440/pdfft?md5=ed317cd3081c990d8c5e93fb33c80334&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000440-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141479634","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":"Rural-urban transition and food security in India","authors":"Chetan Choithani ,&nbsp;Abdul Jaleel CP ,&nbsp;S Irudaya Rajan","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100780","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As a growing proportion of world's population lives in cities and towns, food security is increasingly acquiring an urban character. The locus of food security research and policy agendas has correspondingly expanded from rural areas to include urban centres in recent years. However, the dominant discourse on urbanization-food security relationship appears to be shaped by perspectives from the Global North and large cities, and disregards urbanization-food security nexus in small towns of the Global South. This paper aims to correct this bias. With a focus on India where urbanization is increasingly concentrated in small, former rural regions, this paper looks at the food security implications of country's rural-urban transition and advances a conceptual framework to understand the food security impacts of peripheral urbanization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100780"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141479631","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}