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Food system resilience: Defining the concept

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Title Food system resilience: Defining the concept
 
Creator Tendall, Danielle
 
Contributor Joerin, Jonas
Kopainsky, Birgit
Edwards, Peter
Shreck, Aimee
Le, Quang Bao
Kruetli, Pius
Grant, Michelle
Six, Johan
 
Subject participatory
performance indicators
 
Description In a world of growing complexity and uncertainty, the security of food supplies is threatened by many
factors. These include multiple processes of global change (e.g. climate change, rapid urbanization, population
ageing), unexpected shocks (e.g. natural disasters, financial and political crises), and unexpected
responses of food systems themselves to these processes and events. In this paper, we develop a conceptual
framework for food system resilience, and consider how this could be implemented through
stakeholder participation to ensure food security for everyone. Resilience is conceptualized from a holistic
perspective, as encompassing the complexity of whole food systems, including social, economic and
biophysical processes operating at many scales. It presents the opportunity to eradicate weaknesses and
build capacities in the food system while dealing with future uncertainty.
 
Date 2015-10-01
2016-02-10T10:39:11Z
2016-02-10T10:39:11Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/dspace/limited
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912415300031
Danielle Tendall, Jonas Joerin, Birgit Kopainsky, Peter Edwards, Aimee Shreck, Quang Bao Le, Pius Kruetli, Michelle Grant, Johan Six. (1/10/2015). Food system resilience: Defining the concept. Global Food Security, 6, pp. 17-23.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4297
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Source Global Food Security;6,(2015) Pagination 17,23