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Can Organic Farming Reduce Vulnerabilities and Enhance the Resilience of the European Food System? A Critical Assessment Using System Dynamics Structural Thinking Tools

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Can Organic Farming Reduce Vulnerabilities and Enhance the Resilience of the European Food System? A Critical Assessment Using System Dynamics Structural Thinking Tools

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Author	Brzezina, Natalia Kopainsky, Birgit Mathijs, Erik
Abstract	In a world of growing complexity and uncertainty, food systems must be resilient, i.e., able to deliver sustainable and equitable food and nutrition security in the face of multiple shocks and stresses. The resilience of the European food system that relies mostly on conventional agriculture is a matter of genuine concern and a new approach is called for. Does then organic farming have the potential to reduce vulnerabilities and improve the resilience of the European food system to shocks and stresses? In this paper, we use system dynamics structural thinking tools to identify the vulnerabilities of the conventional food system that result from both its internal structure as well as its exposure to external disturbances. Further, we evaluate whether organic farming can reduce the vulnerabilities. We argue here that organic farming has some potential to bring resilience to the European food system, but it has to be carefully designed and implemented to overcome the contradictions between the dominant socio-economic organization of food production and the ability to enact all organic farming’s principles—health, ecology, fairness and care—on a broader scale.
File Size	2254848
File Format	PDF
e-ISSN	20711050
DOI	10.3390/su8100971
Journal	Sustainability
Issue Number	10
Volume Number	8
Language	English
Publisher Date	2016-09-24
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	conventional agriculture organic farming system dynamics food system food and nutrition security vulnerability resilience feedback loops causal loop diagram
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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