Food systems sustainability: An examination of different viewpoints on food system change
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2019
Global food insecurity levels remain stubbornly high. One of the surest ways to grasp the scale and consequence of global inequality is through a food systems lens. In a predominantly urban world, urban food systems present a useful lens to engage a wide variety of urban (and global) challenges-so called 'wicked problems.' This paper describes a collaborative research project between four urban food system research units, two European and two African. The project purpose was to seek out solutions to what lay between, across and within the different approaches applied in the understanding of each city's food system challenges. Contextual differences and immediate (perceived) needs resulted in very different views on the nature of the challenge and the solutions required. Value positions of individuals and their disciplinary "enclaves" presented further boundaries. The paper argues that finding consensus provides false solutions. Rather the identification of novel approaches to such wicked problems is contingent of these differences being brought to the fore, being part of the conversation, as devices through which common positions can be discovered, where spaces are created for the realisation of new perspectives, but also, where difference is celebrated as opposed to censored.
Urban food security
Food systems change
Urban food system
Wicked problems
Sustainability
Författare
Gareth Haysom
University of Cape Town
E. Gunilla Almered Olsson
Göteborgs universitet
Mirek Dymitrow
Göteborgs universitet
Stiftelsen för miljöstrategisk forskning (Mistra)
Paul Opiyo
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science & Technology
Nick Taylor Buck
University of Sheffield
Michael Oloko
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science & Technology
Charlotte Spring
University of Sheffield
Kristina Fermskog
Göteborgs Stad
Karin Ingelhag
Business Region Göteborg (BRG)
Shelley Kotze
Chalmers, Administration och service
Business Region Göteborg (BRG)
Stephen Gaya Agong
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science & Technology
Sustainability
20711050 (eISSN)
Vol. 11 12 3337Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)
Annan data- och informationsvetenskap
Arkitektur
Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning
DOI
10.3390/su11123337