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Addressing the dynamics of agri-food systems: an emerging agenda for social science research
John Thompson,Ian Scoones +1 more
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In this article, the authors argue for a normative focus on poverty reduction and concern for the distributional consequences of dynamic changes in agri-food systems, rather than aggregates and averages.About:
This article is published in Environmental Science & Policy.The article was published on 2009-06-01. It has received 276 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food systems & Sustainability.read more
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Evolution of systems approaches to agricultural innovation: concepts, analysis and interventions
TL;DR: In an attempt to synthesize and organize the existing literature, this paper reviewed the literature on agricultural innovation, with the threefold goal of sketching the evolution of systemic approaches to agricultural innovation and unravelling the different interpretations; assessing key factors for innovation system performance and demonstrating the use of system thinking in the facilitation of processes of agricultural innovation by means of innovation brokers and reflexive process monitoring.
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Towards the real green revolution? Exploring the conceptual dimensions of a new ecological modernisation of agriculture that could ‘feed the world'
Lummina Horlings,Terry Marsden +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the dominant food regime has responded to this challenge by a narrow ecological modernisation process within agriculture, which may decrease environmental effects to a certain extent, but also causes new negative side-effects and exposes some important missing links.
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When food systems meet sustainability – Current narratives and implications for actions
Christophe Béné,Peter Oosterveer,Lea Lamotte,Inge D. Brouwer,Stef de Haan,Steven D. Prager,Elise F. Talsma,Colin K. Khoury,Colin K. Khoury +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that current attempts to equate or subsume healthy diets within sustainability in the context of food system may be misleading and need to be challenged, and stress that trade-offs between different dimensions of sustainable food system sustainability are unavoidable.
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Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptualization of the relationships among the three themes and how food security vulnerabilities are related to multiple stresses and adaptive capacities, reflecting access to assets is presented, which can help in the development of more effective policies and programs.
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Farming systems research into the 21st century : the new dynamic
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the state of the art in the field of farming systems research in Europe, focusing on the role of action-oriented learning theories for change in agriculture and rural networks.
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TL;DR: The first volume of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report as mentioned in this paper was published in 2007 and covers several topics including the extensive range of observations now available for the atmosphere and surface, changes in sea level, assesses the paleoclimatic perspective, climate change causes both natural and anthropogenic, and climate models for projections of global climate.
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