Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals

The Lancet Planetary Health, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 5(1), P. e50 - e62

Published: Dec. 9, 2020

Food system innovations will be instrumental to achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, major innovation breakthroughs can trigger profound and disruptive changes, leading simultaneous interlinked reconfigurations of parts the global food system. The emergence new technologies or social solutions, therefore, have very different impact profiles, with favourable consequences for some SDGs unintended adverse side-effects others. Stand-alone seldom achieve positive outcomes over sustainability dimensions. Instead, they should embedded as part systemic changes that facilitate implementation SDGs. Emerging trade-offs need intentionally addressed true sustainability, particularly those involving aspects like inequality in its many forms, justice, strong institutions, which remain challenging. Trade-offs undesirable are manageable through development well planned transition pathways, careful monitoring key indicators, transparent science targets at local level.

Language: Английский

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Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture

Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 385(6713)

Published: Sept. 5, 2024

Agriculture's global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding, driven by population and economic growth dietary changes. This Review highlights climate change as an additional amplifier of agriculture's impacts, reducing agricultural productivity, the efficacy agrochemicals, increasing soil erosion, accelerating expanding range crop diseases pests, land clearing. We identify multiple pathways through which intensifies greenhouse gas emissions, creating a potentially powerful change-reinforcing feedback loop. The challenges raised underscore urgent need transition sustainable, climate-resilient systems. requires investments that both accelerate adoption proven solutions provide benefits, discover scale new beneficial processes food products.

Language: Английский

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Fostering Healthy, Equitable, Resilient, and Sustainable Agri‐Food Value Chains

Agricultural Economics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 12, 2025

ABSTRACT The need for agrifood systems transformation to improve economic, environmental, equity, and health outcomes is widely recognized. Attention typically focuses on changing farming practices, consumers’ dietary choices, or both. Midstream value chain actors, who intermediate between primary producers food consumers, too often get overlooked. This paper explains the importance of inducing midstream actors become active agents transformation, discusses policy tools that can accelerate needed changes, highlights key topics future economics research.

Language: Английский

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Surveying the Evidence on Sustainable Intensification Strategies for Smallholder Agricultural Systems

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 48(1), P. 347 - 369

Published: April 26, 2023

Food demand is projected to increase significantly over the coming decades. Sustainable intensification (SI) essential meet this demand. SI particularly important in smallholder systems, yet date it remains unclear what most promising strategies are food production and farmer incomes at scale. We review literature on identify strategies, as manifest replicated findings of favorable causal impacts. Adoption improved cultivars generated largest, consistent, positive yield economic outcomes. Two agroecological practices, push-pull systems System Rice Intensification, also repeatedly led large These have considerable potential scale reach more than 50% farmers who plant staple crops. Significant barriers adoption remain, however, identifying ways overcome these successful will be critical meeting Development Goals 1 2 by 2030.

Language: Английский

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Navigating the politics and processes of food systems transformation: guidance from a holistic framework

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8

Published: June 25, 2024

The call for transforming food systems from their current unsustainable trajectories toward more desirable, healthy, sustainable, resilient, and equitable outcomes has received unprecedented echoes recently—particularly following the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. But lack of guidance on how to do so in a comprehensive integrated manner left many actors uncertain, skeptical, or even low-spirited about prospects delivering such an ambitious task. Through this work, we argue that transformation is not impossible goal aspire for; however, whether achieve any form essentially down politics are enacted. Politics, posit, at center creating maintaining system will also be crucial guiding change processes sustainable goals. In paper, explore argument through conceptual framework. framework, which relevant both high lower-income countries, integrates multiple perspectives practical experiences transition, propose holistic diagnostic prescriptive tool transformation. Three critical lessons emerge this: first, (of systems) must normative, deliberate goal-oriented—as opposed driven by technological innovations; second, process account for, integrate, build multi-dimensional multi-procedural nature drive (or resist) changes; third, needs strong driving environment, one transforms just but governance.

Language: Английский

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Food Security in Israel: Challenges and Policies

Foods, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(2), P. 187 - 187

Published: Jan. 6, 2024

This article analyzes Israel's food security in comparison to other developed countries, using multiple indicators divided into four sections: availability, affordability, quality and safety, natural resources resilience. Overall, the state of Israel is better than most but threats arising from triple risk climate change, international conflicts, disruptions global supply chains, require preparation for future. population growth slowdown rate its agricultural production, as well short-term political desire reduce prices, are leading country increasingly rely on imports. Such imports expose even greater risks, formulation a risk-management strategy that will balance local production The currently exacerbated by shortage labor due situation, making this more necessary. calls establishment governmental authority oversee long-term food-security strategy, break it down feasible objectives policy measures, supervise their implementation. Most importantly, order maintain perhaps enhance productive capacity sector, government must reinstall trust between farmers establishing stable environment.

Language: Английский

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Evolution of the One CGIAR’s research and innovation portfolio to 2030: approaches, tools, and insights after the reform

npj Sustainable Agriculture, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 1(1)

Published: Dec. 6, 2023

Abstract In this perspective, we offer insights into the evolution of CGIAR’s research and innovation portfolio from 2019 to 2023, underpinning transformative journey towards One CGIAR. With contribution, aim strengthen social environmental sustainability components allied, future Research for Development (R4D) portfolios. We explore three interlinked operational frameworks—Quality (QoR4D), Comparative Advantage (CA) Analysis, Inclusive Innovation—and present practical tools lessons enhancing quality impact R4D initiatives. This work is based on gained by Independent Science Council (ISDC) during review proposals current CGIAR portfolio. QoR4D’s four dimensions (relevance, scientific credibility, legitimacy, effectiveness) guide strategy, development, evaluation performance standards, fostering intentional design transparent assessment. CA Analysis leverages organisational strengths, facilitating purposeful partnerships, strategic resource allocation. Innovation emphasises stakeholder inclusivity, amplifying relevance, effectiveness. Insights are drawn application these frameworks, highlighting importance collaboration, need a mindset shift institutional reform, specialisation, maximisation. By adopting lessons, allied organisations can collectively address global food system challenges more effectively, driving sustainable agricultural societal transformation. article aims contribute advancing agriculture underscores significance systemic collaborations in creating resilient equitable systems.

Language: Английский

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Breaking biases and building momentum for transforming agricultural research for development practices: recommendations and research opportunities

npj Sustainable Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 3(1)

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

Abstract Ongoing food system inequalities and pressures on planetary boundaries requires a paradigm shift among agricultural research for development (AR4D) actors to produce effective innovation sustainable environmental social outcomes. Building insights from Agricultural Innovation System literature recognizing the influence of personal systemic biases within AR4D, following recommendations address upstream challenges, interdisciplinary collaboration, emphasize outcome-driven scaling, adaptive project implementation, integrate critical considerations differentiation.

Language: Английский

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Private Capital Investments in Agrifood‐Tech Startups in South America, 2007–2022

Agribusiness, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

ABSTRACT This paper documents rapid growth in private investment agrifood‐tech startups South America. Over the 15 year period 2007–22, nearly US$10 billion flowed into 547 via more than 1100 business deals. The real annualized rate of 52% such has gone largely unnoticed. American ecosystem is heavily concentrated Brazil and Argentina, which together account for 75% population startups. Likewise, ten largest deals over this 48 percent all investments; median agrifood tech modest, roughly US$100,000. Pre‐farm gate technologies captured 42% deal flow but only 15% total capital invested. By contrast, investments at consumer‐facing end value chain, on‐demand delivery startups, represent 51% region 8% flow. Just 46% firms raised two or funding rounds 15‐year period. Multivariate regression models show that country‐year‐level macroeconomic, financial agricultural indicators fail to explain much variation tech. Drawing on key informant interviews, we identify some main barriers accelerators adoption uptake scale

Language: Английский

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Profile of Christopher B. Barrett

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 122(7)

Published: Feb. 6, 2025

Language: Английский

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