Top-down vs bottom-up processes: A systematic review clarifying roles and patterns of interactions in food system transformation

Global Food Security, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 44, P. 100833 - 100833

Published: Feb. 13, 2025

Language: Английский

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Complexity-aware principles for agri-food system interventions: Lessons from project encounters with complexity

Agricultural Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 220, P. 104080 - 104080

Published: July 23, 2024

Complexity has long been recognised as a key feature of agri-food systems. Yet, it remains largely theoretical or poorly addressed in practice, hampering the potential international development projects to address agriculture and food-related challenges Global South. The paper identifies examines six sources complexity that can manifest projects, namely: unpredictability; path dependencies; context-specific dynamics; power relations; multiple temporal spatial scales. It then proposes tests system principles could be drawn upon more successfully navigate this complexity. aim is illustrate how these help respond changing circumstances unpredictable turns systems contexts different way, which flexibly embraces This flexibility essential an age uncertainty transformation. Comparative case study analysis implemented by CGIAR: aflatoxin control groundnuts Malawi (1), pigeonpea Eastern Southern Africa (2), sorghum beer Kenya (3), sweet for biofuel India (4), precooked beans Uganda (5), Smart Foods (6). aimed either increasing smallholder farmers' incomes addressing food nutrition security, both. They were specifically selected all they affected some complexity, hampered extents. makes cases relevant not only illustrating manifestations but also reflect on alternative strategies tackle it. studies reveals frustrate objectives interventions under several aspects. serves discuss navigated (within beyond cases) applying set proposed principles. are presented ways future avoid clinging what "known work" instead venture into powerful pathways change. following complexity-aware principle proposed: Welcome surprises openly trade-offs; Shun orthodoxies; Engage with context-specificity; Expose patterns power; Embrace lengthy nature change; Understand multi-scale (in terms space time) contexts. These used project designers implementors cope will inevitably encountered interventions, no longer ignored.

Language: Английский

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A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty

One Earth, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 8(2), P. 101178 - 101178

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Stories, simulations and narratives: Collaboratively exploring food security and agricultural innovation in sub-Saharan Africa

Agricultural Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 224, P. 104241 - 104241

Published: Dec. 19, 2024

Language: Английский

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