Agri food systems approach for the valuation of biodiversity: the case native potatoes
Public food procurement: a transformative instrument for sustainable food systems [Editorial]
Public food procurement policies and initiatives designed to use government purchasing power and regular demand for food have gained much global attention in the last decade. Public food procurement policies can be used to promote healthy diets, based on sustainable food systems, in workplaces, schools, universities, hospitals, aged care facilities...
Food flows and the roles of cities in West African food distribution networks
In West Africa, rampant urbanization is changing food systems, including the magnitude and composition of food flows and the length of supply chains. An increasing body of literature discusses pathways to sustainable transformation of urban food systems taking into account links between urban and rural spaces. Research and policy have focused on th...
Editorial: Beyond the food systems framework: food system transitions toward sustainable healthy diets in low and middle...
Food systems are failing to deliver sufficient, healthy and affordable food. Poor diets are a leading contributor to the global burden of disease while malnutrition is among the leading causes of death (Afshin et al., 2019). The high cost of healthy diets coupled with persistent high levels of income inequality put healthy diets out of reach for ar...
Food Security, Agricultural Productivity, and the Environment: Economic, Sustainability, and Policy Perspectives
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Leveraging the Potential of Sorghum as a Healthy Food and Resilient Crop in the South African Food System
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
An erosion of indigenous and traditional foods in the Global South has dramatically changed the global food system in the last 50 years. Reinvigorating these crops and the agro-biodiversity that they represent could provide benefits for healthier and more sustainable food systems. In South Africa, it has been proposed that studying indigenous plant...
Food Policy Councils: A 20—Year Scoping Review (1999–2019)
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The proliferation of food policy councils (FPCs) in the past two decades has been accompanied by increasing academic interest and a growing number of research studies. Given the rapid interest and growth in the number of FPCs, their expanding geographic distribution, and the research on their activities, there is a need to assess the current state ...
Healthy and sustainable diets from today to 2050—The role of international trade
The connection between international trade and food systems (un)sustainability is both contentious and critical for policy work supporting progress towards achieving the twin goals of hunger alleviation and dietary health while improving the overall sustainability of development. We characterize the food system using a set of metrics based upon the...
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Food systems and the communities they support are increasingly challenged by climate change and the need to arrest escalating threats through mitigation and adaptation. To ensure climate change mitigation strategies can be implemented effectively and to support substantial gains in greenhouse gas emissions reduction, it is, therefore, valuable to u...
The importance of food systems in a climate crisis for peace and security in the Sahel
Conflicts are increasingly analysed as exhibiting a stealth complexity in which triggers and consequences are intricately linked to climate, environmental degradation and the struggle to control a finite pool of natural resources. The climate crisis is a multifaceted reality and, against this background, many pressing priorities compete with each o...
