1. Towards metrics of sustainable food systems: a review of the resilience and vulnerability literature
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Thomas Allen, Paolo Prosperi, Martine Padilla, Iuri Peri, Bruce Cogill, Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM), Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM), Bioversity International [Montpellier], Bioversity International [Rome], Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR)-Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR), University of Catania [Italy], and Chercheur Nord Doctorant Nord UMR Moisa
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INDICATORS ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Vulnerability ,010501 environmental sciences ,VULNERABILITE ,01 natural sciences ,AGROFOOD SYSTEM ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences ,Sustainable development ,Information system ,General Environmental Science ,2. Zero hunger ,Food security ,SECURITE ALIMENTAIRE ,FOOD SECURITY ,Environmental resource management ,DURABILITE ,Systems of information ,Food and nutrition security ,NUTRITION HUMAINE ,SOCIAL ASPECT ,Food systems ,ASPECT SOCIAL ,HUMAN FEEDING ,INFORMATION SYSTEMS ,12. Responsible consumption ,Resilience ,Social–ecological systems ,2300 ,SUSTAINABILITY ,HUMAN NUTRITION ,INDICATEUR ,SYSTEME D'INFORMATION ,Resilience (network) ,Environmental planning ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,VULNERABILITY ,ALIMENTATION HUMAINE ,SYSTEME AGROALIMENTAIRE ,business.industry ,[SDV.SA.AEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Agriculture, economy and politics ,ALIMENTATION DURABLE ,SUSTAINABLE FOOD ,13. Climate action ,Sustainability ,DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE ,Socio-ecological system ,Food and nutrition security Sustainable ,business - Abstract
International audience; Food and nutrition security is a persisting global issue and, in addition, food systems are now facing a new set of intersecting economic, social and environmental challenges. Recurrent socio-economic and biophysical changes put the sustainability of food systems at risk. There is an urgent need to develop knowledge-based tools to assess and monitor food sustainability and to identify pathways for food security and resource conservation. The systemic nature of these interactions calls for multidimensional approaches and integrated assessments for decision-making to guide change. This paper reviews social–ecological system frameworks with the view to conceptualize the sustainability issues that affect the food systems. It is argued that the understanding of the food systems as social–ecological systems, and inputs from the theories of vulnerability and resilience in particular, can provide the concepts necessary to understand and model the complex system dynamics involved in the multiple interactions between human and natural components.
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- 2016