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Transforming food systems: Multi-stakeholder platforms driven by consumer concerns and public demands

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Title Transforming food systems: Multi-stakeholder platforms driven by consumer concerns and public demands
 
Creator Herens, Marion C.
Pittore, Katherine H.
Oosterveer, Peter
 
Subject food systems
governance
sustainability
stakeholders
food security
nutrition
adaptability
consumers
 
Description Food systems governance for healthy and sustainable diets remains a challenge. New structures are needed to better connect food systems actors. This paper argues that existing multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) have the potential to contribute to food systems governance by facilitating linkages between actors and scales. In a non-experimental study existing MSPs (n = 89) were explored in four countries addressing food and nutrition security. A diagnostic framework was used to identify MSP's capacities to address governance principles like system-based problem framing, boundary spanning, adaptability, inclusiveness, and transformative capacity. Existing MSPs can play a role in spanning boundaries, thereby increasing adaptability and learning, but seem less promising in shifting to systems-based narratives and thus may have limited capacity to truly transform food
 
Date 2022-03-01
2022-12-23T08:58:51Z
2022-12-23T08:58:51Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Herens, Marion C.; Pittore, Katherine H. and Oosterveer, Peter. 2022. Transforming food systems: Multi-stakeholder platforms driven by consumer concerns and public demands. Global Food Security 32:100592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100592
2211-9124
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126277
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100592
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Source Global Food Security