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Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture and Food Supply Chains: System Dynamics Modeling for the Resilience of Smallholder Farmers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
COVID-19 has caused severe agriculture and food supply chain disruptions; significantly affecting smallholder farmers who supply most of the world’s food; specifically their changes in vulnerability; resilience; and food loss and waste.
Tiongco, Monique Ann   +19 more
core   +1 more source

Historical construction of local food system transformations in Lebanon: Implications for the local food system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Food system transformations occur in a complex political, economic, social, and territorial landscape. The study provides a historical construction of global food regime changes and the adaptiveness, transformability, and resilience of the local food ...
Mukahhal, Walid   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Food systems governance should be preceded by food systems diplomacy [PDF]

open access: yesNature Food, 2022
The practice by which international actors consider and engage with negotiations that influence the food system — food systems diplomacy — has the potential to reframe the global food governance narrative to balance the health, social, environmental and economic domains of food systems.
Divya Himangi Garg   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Energy and the food system [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2010
Modern agriculture is heavily dependent on fossil resources. Both direct energy use for crop management and indirect energy use for fertilizers, pesticides and machinery production have contributed to the major increases in food production seen since the 1960s. However, the relationship between energy inputs and yields is not linear.
Woods, J   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Market Formation and the Role of the Farmer in a Micro-level Agri-food Innovation System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The aim is to investigate the dynamics and driving forces within a micro-level agri-food innovation system, focusing on market formation and the role of the farmer.
Norrmanb, Charlotte   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Priority research questions for the UK food system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The rise of food security up international political, societal and academic agendas has led to increasing interest in novel means of improving primary food production and reducing waste.
Ingram, John S I   +252 more
core   +1 more source

Food Security Simulator – Nigeria

open access: yes, 2023
The Food Security Simulator is an innovative and easy-to-use, MS-Excel-based tool for assessing the potential short-term impacts of food price or household income shocks on food security and people’s diets.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
core   +1 more source

A Qualitative Analysis of the Commercial Broiler System, and the Links to Consumers' Nutrition and Health, and to Environmental Sustainability: A South African Case Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
Food systems face growing challenges to meet targets of Zero Hunger (SDG 2), and South Africa is no exception given its triple burden of malnutrition, foodborne disease outbreaks, and threats of climate change to food production.
Kevin Queenan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban landscape assessment: a perceptual approach combining virtual reality and crowdsourced photo geodata

open access: yesAestimum, 2019
The paper focuses on the evaluation of the visual quality of the cityscape of Livorno, in Italy. Using an algorithm based on Flickr’s Application Programming Interface, the coordinates of 7,453 shooting points of a shared photo were downloaded.
Veronica Alampi Sottini   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling Sustainable Food Systems [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Management, 2016
The processes underlying environmental, economic, and social unsustainability derive in part from the food system. Building sustainable food systems has become a predominating endeavor aiming to redirect our food systems and policies towards better-adjusted goals and improved societal welfare.
Allen, T., Prosperi, Paolo
openaire   +4 more sources

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