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Advancing the research agenda on food systems governance and transformation

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Title Advancing the research agenda on food systems governance and transformation
 
Creator Bers, Caroline van
Delaney, Aogán
Eakin, Hallie
Cramer, Laura
Purdon, Mark
Oberlack, Christoph
Evans, Tom
Pahl-Wostl, Claudia
Eriksen, Siri H.
Jones, Lindsey
Korhonen-Kurki, Kaisa
Vasileiou, Ioannis
 
Subject climate change
agriculture
food security
governance
 
Description The food systems upon which humanity depends face multiple interdependent environmental, social and economic threats in the 21st Century. Yet, the governance of these systems, which determines to a large extent the ability to adapt and transform in response to these challenges, is underresearched. This perspective piece synthesises the findings of two recent reviews of food systems governance and transformations and proposes a comprehensive research agenda for the coming years. These reviews highlight the influence of governance on food systems, methodological obstacles to explaining the effectiveness of governance in realising food sustainability, and conditions that have historically supported food system transformations. We argue that the following steps are key to improving our knowledge of the role of governance in food systems: (1) developing more comparable research designs for building generalisable explanations of the governance elements that are most effective in realising food systems goals; (2) using the lens of polycentricity to help disentangle complex governance networks; (3) giving greater attention to the conditions and pre-conditions associated with historical food system transformations; (4) identifying adaptations that strengthen or weaken path dependency; and, (5) focusing research on how transformations can be supported by institutions that facilitate collective action and stakeholder agency.
 
Date 2019-08-01
2019-11-18T13:37:19Z
2019-11-18T13:37:19Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier van Bers C, Delaney A, Eakin H, Cramer L, Purdon M, Oberlack C, Evans T, Pahl-Wostl C, Eriksen S, Jones L, Korhonen-Kurki K, Vasileiou I. 2019. Advancing the research agenda on food systems governance and transformation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 39:94-102.
1877-3435
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105799
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FP4_Governance
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.08.003
 
Language en
 
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Format 94-102
 
Source Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability