Transforming Food Systems
The Potential of Engaged Political Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11470973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Molly D Anderson (0000-0001-7717-1025, Middlebury College), Macedward Leach (0000-0002-1293-6848), Melissa Leach (0000-0002-8435-5401) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IDS Bulletin (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436 |
| Publisher | Institute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.19088/1968-2019.123 |
| OpenAlex | W2965207449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 8 |
A food systems approach is critical to understanding and facilitating food system transformation, yet gaps in analysis are impeding changes towards greater equity, sustainability, and emancipation. Gaps include analyses of interdependencies among food system activities, of narrative politics, and of the behaviour of food system components using dynamic methodologies. Other problems include inappropriate boundaries to the system, insufficient learning across scales, lack of integration of social and ecological drivers and trends, and inadequate attention to the intersectional impacts of marginalisation. Both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work is necessary to overcome these problems, and, fundamentally, to understand power in food systems. Transdisciplinarity allows an engaged political economy in which social actors, including those who have not benefited from adequate food, livelihoods, and other services that food systems provide, are involved along with academics in co-creating the knowledge necessary for transformation. This engagement requires humility and respect, especially by academics, and explicit power-sharing
Agriculture · Business · Economic system · Economics · Food security · Food systems · Interdependence · Livelihood · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Organic Food and Agriculture
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |