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Governance of food systems across scales in times of social-ecological change: a review of indicators

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Title Governance of food systems across scales in times of social-ecological change: a review of indicators
 
Creator Delaney, Aogán
Evans, Tom
McGreevy, John
Blekking, Jordan
Schlachter, Tyler
Korhonen-Kurki, Kaisa
Tamás, Peter A.
Crane, Todd A.
Eakin, Hallie
Förch, Wiebke
Jones, Lindsey
Nelson, Donald R.
Oberlack, Christoph
Purdon, Mark
Rist, Stephan
 
Subject climate change
agriculture
food security
governance
food systems
 
Description Governance of food systems is a poorly understood determinant of food security. Much scholarship on food systems governance is non-empirical, while existing empirical research is often case study-based and theoretically and methodologically incommensurable. This complicates aggregation of evidence and generalization. This paper presents a review of literature to identify a core set of methodological indicators to study food systems governance in future research. Indicators were identified from literature gathered through a structured consultation and sampling from recent systematic reviews and were classified according to governance levels and the food system activity domain they investigate. We found a concentration of indicators in food production at local to national levels and with less literature investigating how food governance affects food distribution and consumption. Many indicators of institutional structure were found, while indicators capturing social agency and indicators of cross-scale dynamics were moderately represented but critical perspectives on governance were lacking. These gaps present an opportunity for future empirical research to investigate more comprehensively the diverse components of food systems and how governance arrangements at different scales affect them.
 
Date 2018-04
2018-04-18T11:24:32Z
2018-04-18T11:24:32Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Delaney A, Evans T, McGreevy J, Blekking J, Schlachter T, Korhonen-Kurki K, Tamás PA, Crane TA, Eakin H, Förch W, Jones L, Nelson DR, Oberlack C, Purdon M, Rist S. 2018. Governance of food systems across scales in times of social-ecological change: a review of indicators. Food Security 10(2):287-310.
1876-4525
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92094
FP4_Governance
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-018-0770-y
 
Language en
 
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Limited Access
 
Format p. 287-310
 
Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source Food Security