Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research

By P. Ericksen. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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Food System Sustainability and Food Security: Connecting the Dots (2014, background): “The three elements of food utilization are nutritional value, social value, and food safety [15].”
Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes (2013, background): “Key groups of actors within the market sector include producers, processors and packagers, distributors and retailers, and consumers (Ericksen, 2008), as well as producer organizations such as cooperatives.”
Food systems everywhere: Improving relevance in practice (2020, background): “Some 11 different definitions of food systems are distinguished, ranging from the sequence and combination of different agri-food activities and disciplines (Hammond and Dubé, 2012; Vermeulen et al., 2012) to a more complex set of interrelated processes and relations between actors (Ericksen, 2008).”
Resilience of local food systems and links to food security – A review of some important concepts in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks (2020, background): “The very nature of food systems, made of interconnected actors and feedbacks (Ericksen 2008; HLPE 2017; Béné et al. 2019b), means that once an initial shock impacts one part/ group of actors in the system, the responses it triggers from that group is likely to ripple through the interconnected…”
Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (2015, background): “Food wholesaling and retailing plays an important role in the provision of food to consumers (Ericksen 2008).”
Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: a review (2014, background): “This vulnerability is a product of climate change impacts on biological systems, affecting food availability, as well as economic and social impacts that affect food utilization, access to food and the stability of food security (Ericksen, 2008).”
Resilience and household food security: a review of concepts, methodological approaches and empirical evidence (2019, background): “Essentially, our conceptual framework considers the household unit as the agent of the food system, interacting in complex ways with the activities, and food security is an indicator of the ultimate outcome of these interactions (Ericksen 2008).”
Resilience and the industrial food system: analyzing the impacts of agricultural industrialization on food system vulnerability (2015, background): “ciplinary tradition of creating qualitative frameworks through which to explore food systems (see Watts and Bohle 1993; Ericksen 2008; Hinrichs 2014), but this paper makes a distinct contribution to this field by applying evidence documenting recent changes in the nature of Canada and the USA’s food”
Food security and the Coral Triangle Initiative (2013, background): “Similarly, aquaculture must form a key component of such a ‘food-system’ approach, along with the various trade-offs and impacts (environmental, economic, social) it entails [67].”
Food security governance: a systematic literature review (2014, background): “These interactions take place both within and outside food systems (cf. Ericksen 2008; Ingram 2011), and cover factors such as food prices, agricultural trade, poverty reduction, infrastructure, education, and crisis management.”
Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “The socioeconomic and biophysical drivers, or stressors, overlap to indicate that they interact to affect the community synergistically (Ericksen 2008).”
Sustainable development and the water–energy–food nexus: A perspective on livelihoods (2015, background): “However, ‘security’ is not solely driven by availability of resources but also by access to resources, the capacity to utilise resources as well as dynamics of social power relations and the strength of institutions (Sen, 1999; Ericksen, 2008; Pritchard et al., 2013).”
A 40-year review of food–energy–water nexus literature and its application to the urban scale (2019, background): “FEW systems interact across a dizzying array of spatial and temporal scales; they are frequently both local and global, immediate and delayed (Ericksen 2008).”
Challenges for food system adaptation today and tomorrow (2009, background): “A noted exception is Ericksen (2008) who takes a similar holistic approach.”