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Characterizing diversity of food systems in view of sustainability transitions. A review
Dominant food systems are configured from the productivist paradigm, which focuses on producing large amounts of inexpensive and standardized foods. Although these food systems continue being supported worldwide, they are no longer considered fit-for-purpose as they have been proven unsustainable in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6394436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30881486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13593-018-0550-2 |
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author | Gaitán-Cremaschi, Daniel Klerkx, Laurens Duncan, Jessica Trienekens, Jacques H. Huenchuleo, Carlos Dogliotti, Santiago Contesse, María E. Rossing, Walter A. H. |
author_facet | Gaitán-Cremaschi, Daniel Klerkx, Laurens Duncan, Jessica Trienekens, Jacques H. Huenchuleo, Carlos Dogliotti, Santiago Contesse, María E. Rossing, Walter A. H. |
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description | Dominant food systems are configured from the productivist paradigm, which focuses on producing large amounts of inexpensive and standardized foods. Although these food systems continue being supported worldwide, they are no longer considered fit-for-purpose as they have been proven unsustainable in environmental and social terms. A large body of scientific literature argues that a transition from the dominant food systems to alternative ones built around the wider principles of sustainable production and rural development is needed. Promoting such a sustainability transition would benefit from a diagnosis of food system types to identify those systems that may harbor promising characteristics for a transition to sustainable food systems. While research on food system transitions abounds, an operational approach to characterize the diversity of food systems taking a system perspective is still lacking. In this paper we review the literature on how transitions to sustainable food systems may play out and present a framework based on the Multi-Level Perspective on Socio-Technical Transitions, which builds upon conceptual developments from social and natural science disciplines. The objectives of the framework are to (i) characterize the diversity of existing food systems at a certain geographical scale based on a set of structural characteristics and (ii) classify the food systems in terms of their support by mainstream practices, i.e., dominant food systems connected to regimes; deviate radically from them, niche food systems such as those based on grassroots innovation; or share elements of dominant and niche food systems, i.e., hybrid food systems. An example is given of application of our framework to vegetable food systems with a focus on production, distribution, and consumption of low-or-no pesticide vegetables in Chile. Drawing on this illustrative example we reflect on usefulness, shortcomings, and further development and use of the diagnostic framework. |
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spelling | pubmed-63944362019-03-15 Characterizing diversity of food systems in view of sustainability transitions. A review Gaitán-Cremaschi, Daniel Klerkx, Laurens Duncan, Jessica Trienekens, Jacques H. Huenchuleo, Carlos Dogliotti, Santiago Contesse, María E. Rossing, Walter A. H. Agron Sustain Dev Review Article Dominant food systems are configured from the productivist paradigm, which focuses on producing large amounts of inexpensive and standardized foods. Although these food systems continue being supported worldwide, they are no longer considered fit-for-purpose as they have been proven unsustainable in environmental and social terms. A large body of scientific literature argues that a transition from the dominant food systems to alternative ones built around the wider principles of sustainable production and rural development is needed. Promoting such a sustainability transition would benefit from a diagnosis of food system types to identify those systems that may harbor promising characteristics for a transition to sustainable food systems. While research on food system transitions abounds, an operational approach to characterize the diversity of food systems taking a system perspective is still lacking. In this paper we review the literature on how transitions to sustainable food systems may play out and present a framework based on the Multi-Level Perspective on Socio-Technical Transitions, which builds upon conceptual developments from social and natural science disciplines. The objectives of the framework are to (i) characterize the diversity of existing food systems at a certain geographical scale based on a set of structural characteristics and (ii) classify the food systems in terms of their support by mainstream practices, i.e., dominant food systems connected to regimes; deviate radically from them, niche food systems such as those based on grassroots innovation; or share elements of dominant and niche food systems, i.e., hybrid food systems. An example is given of application of our framework to vegetable food systems with a focus on production, distribution, and consumption of low-or-no pesticide vegetables in Chile. Drawing on this illustrative example we reflect on usefulness, shortcomings, and further development and use of the diagnostic framework. Springer Paris 2018-12-17 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6394436/ /pubmed/30881486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13593-018-0550-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Gaitán-Cremaschi, Daniel Klerkx, Laurens Duncan, Jessica Trienekens, Jacques H. Huenchuleo, Carlos Dogliotti, Santiago Contesse, María E. Rossing, Walter A. H. Characterizing diversity of food systems in view of sustainability transitions. A review |
title | Characterizing diversity of food systems in view of sustainability transitions. A review |
title_full | Characterizing diversity of food systems in view of sustainability transitions. A review |
title_fullStr | Characterizing diversity of food systems in view of sustainability transitions. A review |
title_full_unstemmed | Characterizing diversity of food systems in view of sustainability transitions. A review |
title_short | Characterizing diversity of food systems in view of sustainability transitions. A review |
title_sort | characterizing diversity of food systems in view of sustainability transitions. a review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6394436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30881486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13593-018-0550-2 |
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