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Food mapping approaches for understanding food system transformations in rapid-growth city regions in the Global South

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Title Food mapping approaches for understanding food system transformations in rapid-growth city regions in the Global South
 
Creator Liddy, Heidi
Mowlds, Sinead
McKeown, Peter C.
Lundy, Mark
Spillane, Charles
 
Subject food systems
nutrition
value chain analysis
decision support systems
urban areas
towns
 
Description The world’s food systems are rapidly changing due to socioeconomic, environmental, and demographic changes, globalization, and urbanization. Urban regions connect urban food consumption with rural food production and are associated with rapid dietary transitions in developing counties. Despite urbanization being a key driver of city-regional and global food system transformations, city-regional food systems (particularly in developing countries) are under-researched. Although the importance of dynamic urban and peri-urban food systems has led to new frameworks and approaches for mapping food flows within urban regions, our study highlights both opportunities and limitations to food mapping in high-growth city regions in the Global South. We review existing approaches to food mapping using three contrasting city-regional food systems as case studies, namely, Bahir Dar (Ethiopia), Hanoi (Vietnam), and Cali (Colombia), and identify priorities for future progress. These include temporal dimensions of food access; nutritional outcomes of food flows; economic, cultural, and ethnic factors affecting consumer behavior; and how consumption of healthier foods could be enabled by decision-making throughout food supply chains. In addition, the roles of food loss and waste could also be more specifically
considered. We conclude that providing a more comprehensive and nutrition sensitive understanding of city-regional food systems can guide evidence-based interventions and activities to enable transitions to healthier, equitable, and more sustainable urban food systems.
 
Date 2023-11-09
2023-11-13T11:51:28Z
2023-11-13T11:51:28Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Liddy, H.; Mowlds, S.; McKeown, P.C.; Lundy, M.; Spillane, C. (2023) Food mapping approaches for understanding food system transformations in rapid-growth city regions in the Global South. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 7: 1238124. ISSN: 2571-581X
2571-581X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134465
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1238124
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1238124
application/pdf
 
Publisher FRONTIERS MEDIA
 
Source Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems