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A food systems approach to researching food security and its interactions with global environmental change

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Ingram, John
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	There is growing concern that satisfying societal demand for food over coming decades will be increasingly challenging. Much of the debate centres on increasing food production which has always been–and remains–an important strategy to alleviate food insecurity. However, despite the fact that more than enough food is currently produced per capita to adequately feed the global population, about 925 million people remained food insecure in 2010. Meeting future demand will be further complicated by deleterious changes in climate and other environmental factors (collectively termed ‘global environmental change’, GEC). This paper lays out a case for a food systems approach to research the complex food security/GEC arena and provides a number of examples of how this can help. These include (i) providing a framework for structuring dialogues aimed at enhancing food security and identifying the range of actors and other interested parties who should be involved; (ii) integrating analyses of the full set of food system activities (i.e. producing, storing, processing, packaging, trading and consuming food) with those of the food security outcomes i.e. stability of food access, utilisation and availability, and all their nine elements (rather than only food production); (iii) helping to both assess the impacts of GEC on food systems and identify feedbacks to the earth system from food system activities; (iv) helping to identify intervention points for enhancing food security and analysing synergies and trade-offs between food security, ecosystem services and social welfare outcomes of different adaptation pathways; and (v) highlighting where new research is needed.
Starting Page	417
Ending Page	431
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18764517
Journal	Food Security
Volume Number	3
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18764525
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-11-24
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Food security Food systems Global environmental change Vulnerability Adaptation Environment Social Policy Agriculture Social Sciences Plant Sciences Food Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Development Food Science Agronomy and Crop Science

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