Taking Complexity in Food Systems Seriously: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
By T. Foran, J. Butler, L. Williams, W. Wanjura, A. Hall, L. Carter, Peter S. Carberry. 2014
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Motivated by donor interest in innovative thinking on food security, we conducted an interdisciplinary, triangulation analysis of four divergent conceptual frameworks, each relevant to diagnosing food insecurity in developing countries. We found notable tensions as well as synergistic interactions between agroecology, agricultural innovation systems, social–ecological systems, and political ecology. Cross-framework interactions enhance our understanding of how sectoral and macro-economic development strategies impact on livelihoods, availability, and access. Re-invigorated, more profound dialog between divergent conceptual frameworks enables diagnosis of complex food insecurity problems, and context-specific interventions and innovations. Informed use of divergent approaches constitutes a new ambition for research and practice.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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Citations in the corpus
- How is innovation in aquaculture conceptualized and managed? A systematic literature review and reflection framework to inform analysis and action (2017, methodology): “We selected different approaches to how innovation is conceptualized and analysed, and connected to this how innovation management is organized, applied to the neighbouring fields of the natural resource management-based sectors of agriculture (Elzen et al., 2012; Foran et al., 2014; Klerkx et al., ”
- Exploring European food system vulnerabilities: Towards integrated food security governance (2017, unknown): “As researchers have observed (Foran et al., 2014), food security is an evolving and multi-dimensional construct that includes widely acknowledged dimensions (such as ensuring global access to food) but also competing interpretations of key problems and solutions needed to deliver good food.”
- Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review (2016, background): “…elements are less highlighted in the regime concept, as well as notions of geographical scales (Coenen et al. 2012; Hansen and Coenen 2015) whereas they are highly important in the context of agriculture (Dalgaard et al. 2003; Diaz et al. 2013; Foran et al. 2014; Sinclair et al. 2014).”
- Sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the Central African Highlands: The need for institutional innovation (2016, background): “Third, stakeholder engagement provides a basis for collective ex-ante design of AIS research, policy and development agendas for sustainable intensification (Foran et al., 2014).”
- Beyond the agroecological and sustainable agricultural intensification debate: Is blended sustainability the way forward? (2018, background): “A network of farmers, peasants and food workers from 69 countries (Foran et al., 2014); we acknowledge that the view of La Via Campesina is not representative of all farmer groups.”