Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100818
Vanya Slavchevska, Mariola Acosta, Tacko Ndiaye, Clara Mi Young Park
Rural transformation pathways focused on efficiency and productivity often leave women and marginalized social groups behind in addition to having negative impacts on the environment and nutrition. As rural transformation models are reconsidered from an agrifood-system perspective to include climate change and nutrition goals, it is also critical to reevaluate how gender and intersecting dimensions of power are integrated. Shifting the focus from 'what' to 'how', the study asserts that meaningful synergies are present among decent livelihoods, climate action, and nutrition – key domains of resilient and inclusive rural transformation – and women's empowerment. It identifies five critical pathways that are relevant across the three domains to position gender at the center of resilient and inclusive rural transformation and underscores the importance of quality data and increased finance to enact these pathways.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100820
Andrea Cecilia Sánchez Bogado , Natalia Estrada-Carmona , Damien Beillouin , Cecile Chéron-Bessou , Bruno Rapidel , Sarah K. Jones
Diversified farming practices offer a promising pathway to sustainable food production by providing economic, environmental, and social benefits to farmers and society. However, the factors influencing their adoption are poorly understood, hindering the development of effective promotion strategies.
This study presents a comprehensive global meta-analysis of 154 peer-reviewed studies analysing factors influencing adoption. We examined the effects of 71 factors across nine key categories—biophysical context, farm management characteristics, farmers’ attitudes, political and institutional context (access to knowledge, land tenure, financial risk management), and five forms of capital (financial, human, natural, physical, and social)—on the adoption of ten diversified practices in 42 countries across five UN regions.
Our results reveal that access to knowledge, social capital, and farmers’ attitudes are key enablers of adoption, surpassing financial, physical, human, and natural capital. Specifically, access to extension services, strong social networks, and perceived environmental benefits significantly correlate with adoption. Land ownership, household income, literacy levels, and shallow soils have smaller positive effects. The influence of these factors varies across practices and geographic contexts, highlighting the complex and multifaceted nature of adoption.
These findings emphasize the need for holistic agricultural initiatives and policies to promote the adoption of sustainable practices. Strategies that build technical knowledge and social capital and that are tailored to local contexts, sociocultural norms, and market structures, considering farmers' perceptions and attitudes through codesign processes, are more likely to succeed. Adaptive and context-specific strategies are crucial for fostering the widespread adoption of diversified farming practices and a more sustainable agricultural future.
{"title":"Farming for the future: Understanding factors enabling the adoption of diversified farming systems","authors":"Andrea Cecilia Sánchez Bogado , Natalia Estrada-Carmona , Damien Beillouin , Cecile Chéron-Bessou , Bruno Rapidel , Sarah K. Jones","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100820","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100820","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Diversified farming practices offer a promising pathway to sustainable food production by providing economic, environmental, and social benefits to farmers and society. However, the factors influencing their adoption are poorly understood, hindering the development of effective promotion strategies.</div><div>This study presents a comprehensive global meta-analysis of 154 peer-reviewed studies analysing factors influencing adoption. We examined the effects of 71 factors across nine key categories—biophysical context, farm management characteristics, farmers’ attitudes, political and institutional context (access to knowledge, land tenure, financial risk management), and five forms of capital (financial, human, natural, physical, and social)—on the adoption of ten diversified practices in 42 countries across five UN regions.</div><div>Our results reveal that access to knowledge, social capital, and farmers’ attitudes are key enablers of adoption, surpassing financial, physical, human, and natural capital. Specifically, access to extension services, strong social networks, and perceived environmental benefits significantly correlate with adoption. Land ownership, household income, literacy levels, and shallow soils have smaller positive effects. The influence of these factors varies across practices and geographic contexts, highlighting the complex and multifaceted nature of adoption.</div><div>These findings emphasize the need for holistic agricultural initiatives and policies to promote the adoption of sustainable practices. Strategies that build technical knowledge and social capital and that are tailored to local contexts, sociocultural norms, and market structures, considering farmers' perceptions and attitudes through codesign processes, are more likely to succeed. Adaptive and context-specific strategies are crucial for fostering the widespread adoption of diversified farming practices and a more sustainable agricultural future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100820"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143104865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100817
Regina Brown , Stacy Griswold , Carolyn Van Sant , Ian Moore , Yanlin Ren , Gloria Desire Kayo , Jackson Bagabirwa , Merry Fitzpatrick , Anastasia Marshak , Marlene Hebie , Hugo De Groote , Patrick Webb , Shibani Ghosh
Multi-sectoral interventions targeting nutrition have shown promise in low- and middle-income settings. A 1:1:1 multi-level cluster-randomized controlled trial assessed the impact of two 12-week social behavior change interventions called Nutrition Impact and Positive Practice (NIPP) and NIPP+. The NIPP intervention sought to improve participants’ food security, diet quality, and water, sanitation, and hygiene. The NIPP + intervention used additional nudges to improve agricultural practices. Nearly 900 households from 60 clusters in the Agago District of Uganda were randomized to one of three arms: Control, NIPP, and NIPP+. Impacts on maize yield, household food security, diet quality, and child anthropometry were assessed using generalized linear mixed models. Post-intervention, NIPP + children had 2 times increased odds of achieving a minimum acceptable diet (MAD) (OR = 2.04; 95% CI = 1.04, 3.99; p = 0.039) compared to control. One year post intervention, women in NIPP (OR = 2.27; 95% CI = 1.38, 3.74; p = 0.001) and NIPP+ (OR = 2.81; 95% CI = 1.71, 4.61; p < 0.000) had more than two times increased odds of achieving minimum dietary diversity (MDDW) compared to control, and children in NIPP + had a mean mid-upper arm circumference that was 0.217 cm higher (β = 0.217; 95% CI = 0.033, 0.402; p = 0.022) compared to control. We detected no significant effects on maize yield, household food security, or child dietary diversity. This study demonstrates the potential for the NIPP and NIPP + interventions to improve diet diversity, independent of improvements to either agricultural production or household food security.
针对营养的多部门干预措施在低收入和中等收入环境中显示出了希望。一项1:1:1的多层次集群随机对照试验评估了两项为期12周的社会行为改变干预措施的影响，即营养影响和积极实践（NIPP）和NIPP+。NIPP干预旨在改善参与者的食品安全、饮食质量、水、环境卫生和个人卫生。NIPP +干预措施使用了额外的推动措施来改善农业实践。来自乌干达Agago地区60个组群的近900户家庭被随机分为三个组：对照、NIPP和NIPP+。使用广义线性混合模型评估了对玉米产量、家庭粮食安全、饮食质量和儿童人体测量的影响。干预后，NIPP +儿童达到最低可接受饮食（MAD）的几率增加了2倍(OR = 2.04；95% ci = 1.04, 3.99；P = 0.039)。干预后1年，NIPP妇女(OR = 2.27；95% ci = 1.38, 3.74；p = 0.001)和NIPP+ (OR = 2.81；95% ci = 1.71, 4.61；p & lt;0.000)与对照组相比，达到最低膳食多样性（MDDW）的几率增加了两倍以上，NIPP +儿童的平均上臂中围高0.217厘米(β = 0.217；95% ci = 0.033, 0.402；P = 0.022)。我们没有发现对玉米产量、家庭粮食安全或儿童饮食多样性有显著影响。这项研究证明了NIPP和NIPP +干预措施在改善饮食多样性方面的潜力，而不依赖于农业生产或家庭粮食安全的改善。
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100819
Rukshan Mehta , Christie Oh
Food waste generated by large systems including hospitals and postsecondary institutions can greatly influence the reduction, reuse, recycling, and recovery of produce and other perishable waste items that are essential to human health and nutrition. We position the issue of food waste as it pertains to the circular economy to support the provision of fruits and vegetables through networks of food donating charitable organizations such as food banks in Canada. Similar models can be replicated in other settings where either government or private citizens can work with institutional partners to divert food susceptible to loss or waste to promote rescue. Added benefits include climate change reduction and support for improved planetary health. Wide-scale thinking is needed about these issues given the pertinence of global warming and climate change, and the need to sustain improved nutrition for our growing populations impacted by chronic diseases across the lifespan. Further study is needed to estimate the true quality and quantity (volume) of waste and benefits associated with diversion to human consumption related purposes.
{"title":"Institutional food waste and the circular economy: Is it time to revisit produce waste in global food supply chains?","authors":"Rukshan Mehta , Christie Oh","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100819","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100819","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food waste generated by large systems including hospitals and postsecondary institutions can greatly influence the reduction, reuse, recycling, and recovery of produce and other perishable waste items that are essential to human health and nutrition. We position the issue of food waste as it pertains to the circular economy to support the provision of fruits and vegetables through networks of food donating charitable organizations such as food banks in Canada. Similar models can be replicated in other settings where either government or private citizens can work with institutional partners to divert food susceptible to loss or waste to promote rescue. Added benefits include climate change reduction and support for improved planetary health. Wide-scale thinking is needed about these issues given the pertinence of global warming and climate change, and the need to sustain improved nutrition for our growing populations impacted by chronic diseases across the lifespan. Further study is needed to estimate the true quality and quantity (volume) of waste and benefits associated with diversion to human consumption related purposes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100819"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100816
Marija Knez , Konstadinos Mattas , Mirjana Gurinovic , Anna Gkotzamani , Athanasios Koukounaras
In the realm of global diets, green leafy vegetables are recognized for their culinary flexibility and nutritional value. This paper presents a thorough investigation of green leafy plants, exploring their botanical diversity and their impact on health, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental aspects. Beginning with an examination of their taxonomy and current consumption trends, the paper delves into their nutritional benefits, including vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Furthermore, it discusses their potential contributions to biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, and environmental resilience. Future perspectives explore technological advances, market dynamics and production sustainability, while considering the impacts of climate change on post-harvest handling. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, the paper provides holistic insights into the implications of green leafy vegetable production and consumption, emphasizing their important role in addressing global challenges in promoting human health and sustainable development. Overall, it advocates for further research, policy initiatives, and collective action to promote the cultivation, consumption, and integration of wider variety of green leafy vegetables into food systems for a healthier and more sustainable future.
{"title":"Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability","authors":"Marija Knez , Konstadinos Mattas , Mirjana Gurinovic , Anna Gkotzamani , Athanasios Koukounaras","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100816","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100816","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the realm of global diets, green leafy vegetables are recognized for their culinary flexibility and nutritional value. This paper presents a thorough investigation of green leafy plants, exploring their botanical diversity and their impact on health, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental aspects. Beginning with an examination of their taxonomy and current consumption trends, the paper delves into their nutritional benefits, including vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Furthermore, it discusses their potential contributions to biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, and environmental resilience. Future perspectives explore technological advances, market dynamics and production sustainability, while considering the impacts of climate change on post-harvest handling. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, the paper provides holistic insights into the implications of green leafy vegetable production and consumption, emphasizing their important role in addressing global challenges in promoting human health and sustainable development. Overall, it advocates for further research, policy initiatives, and collective action to promote the cultivation, consumption, and integration of wider variety of green leafy vegetables into food systems for a healthier and more sustainable future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100816"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100813
Melinda Smale , Amidou Assima
Finding pathways to improve nutrition is vital to Mali. We apply a simultaneous equation model to test whether the diversity of crops grown on farms or local market purchases has a greater effect on the diet quality of 5930 farm women in Mali. Both on-farm crop diversity and the diversity of food sources purchased in local markets have strong positive associations with women's diet quality, but crop diversity effects are greater. A larger area share devoted to cereals reduces diet quality. Results are robust to the choice of diversity indicator. Market-based incentives at a regional and local scale could enhance on-farm crop diversity and stimulate both the production and trade of diverse food products in local markets: a win-win scenario.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100810
L. Schreefel , R.E. Creamer , H.H.E. van Zanten , E.M. de Olde , K. Koppelmäki , M. Debernardini , I.J.M. de Boer , R.P.O. Schulte
Global food security is threatened by widespread degradation of agricultural land and associated loss of ecosystem services. In response, farming approaches such as regenerative agriculture are heralded by industries and governments as mainstream solutions to keep the global food system within planetary boundaries. The low level of consensus on science-based approaches to the monitoring and verification of the efficacy of such solutions, however, has left many initiatives vulnerable to allegations of greenwashing. In this paper, we present a comprehensive perspective on the role of indicators for monitoring agricultural systems. We subsequently propose a flexible yet coherent framework for the transparent, time and context-sensitive selection of indicators for monitoring the extent to which sustainability initiatives contribute to their goals.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100803
Deviana Dewi , Destan Aytekin , Kate R. Schneider , Namukolo Covic , Jessica Fanzo , Stella Nordhagen , Danielle Resnick
Changes in food systems—across multiple sectors and through all levels of government—are essential for meeting many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other global environmental and health targets. Steering food systems towards common outcomes and ensuring that actions in one area do not undermine progress in another requires policy coherence. This scoping review examines how policy coherence has been broadly defined and measured in areas related to food system transformation to inform conceptualization, definition, and measurement specific to food systems transformation and provide insights for policy and program implementation. We reviewed literature published from January 2000 to December 2022 and identified 47 studies meeting the inclusion criteria. Results show that common features of definitions of policy coherence relevant for food systems are: an emphasis on minimizing tradeoffs and maximizing synergies; policy integration within different areas of government and food systems or across scales (horizontal or vertical coherence); alignment of objectives, interventions, and indicators within a given policy area; and complementarity and consistency of actions and goals within or across sectors of food systems. Measurement methods to date are mainly limited to qualitative policy document review and participatory assessment, with no examples of application at scale. This paper provides a first step towards a definition and measurement approach for policy coherence that can fill this important data gap in monitoring the governance of food systems transformation and synthesizes evidence to guide actions towards greater policy coherence in governing national food systems.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100815
Kate R. Schneider , Ana Paula De la O Campos , Romina Cavatassi , Benjamin Davis
With climate change, globalization, and the nutrition transition, agricultural productivity growth is proving insufficient to bring about resilient and inclusive rural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we review the evidence for a set of policy strategies, reflecting on how to expand labor opportunities and increase incomes with a focus on achieving greater inclusion. We argue that some well-known strategies remain critical for improving the efficiency of labor markets: expanding demand for labor and increasing formalization, especially in agrifood systems sectors. However, efficiency does not mean equality, and these strategies require careful targeting and intentional actions to redistribute resources to ensure inclusion. Whilst long-recognized strategies remain underfunded, initial endowments are essential to bring about inclusive transformation: growing human capital and productive resources and increasing women's empowerment. Finally, we suggest two emerging tools for labor market expansion and inclusivity: expanding jobs within the green transition and fostering resilient labor markets through social protection.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100811
Leslie Lipper , Romina Cavatassi
Responding to climate change presents deep challenges to achieving the resilient and inclusive rural transformation needed to eradicate global poverty. Exposure and vulnerability to climate hazards in areas of high rural poverty create an urgent need for adaptation. Poor rural areas and people experience higher limits to adaptation and thus higher costs in achieving effectiveness, as well as greater risk of incurring losses and damages where adaptation is insufficient. Mitigation measures in the agriculture, forestry and land use (AFOLU) sector could impose large, underestimated costs in the form of foregone opportunities for improved livelihoods. Past and current emission levels associated with wealth and opportunity are highly unequally distributed. The constrained additional carbon space to remain under 1.5 or 2 degrees of global warming mandates low emissions development pathways, requiring investments of trillions of dollars per year. Financing currently available is neither sufficient nor provided under the terms required to support a Just Transition. Overcoming these challenges requires building political will through explicit recognition and widespread communication of how climate change response can further disadvantage the poorest people in the global community. It requires revisiting distributional implications of methodologies for prioritizing mitigation options and devising approaches based on equity. Increasing the flow of financing under enabling conditions and integrating development and climate change is an urgent priority. A radical revamping of technical and policy approaches to climate change response and rural development strategies is needed to ensure their mutual reinforcement and prioritization of a resilient, inclusive approach to rural transformation.
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