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Food security: A fractured consensus
Damian Maye,James Kirwan +1 more
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This article is published in Journal of Rural Studies.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 77 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food security & Food policy.read more
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Food security governance: a systematic literature review
TL;DR: The role of governance in food security has been receiving increasing attention from food security scholars in recent years as mentioned in this paper, however, in spite of the recognition that governance matters, current knowledge of food security governance is rather fragmented.
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Comparing food security and food sovereignty discourses
TL;DR: This article conceptualized food security and food sovereignty as fluid and changing discourses that define the problem of hunger, and traced the discursive geohistories of food security, food sovereignty, and food sovere...
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Disentangling the consensus frame of food security: the case of the EU Common Agricultural Policy reform debate
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that food security is a consensus frame which can be broken down into six conflicting and overlapping sub-frames and which has complicated the debates about the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
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‘Feeding 9 billion people’: global food security debates and the productionist trap
TL;DR: In 2007/2008, food security, a long-established item on the international agenda, raises many issues including production, consumption, poverty, inequalities, healthcare and conflicts as mentioned in this paper.
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Acknowledging complexity in food supply chains when assessing their performance and sustainability
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the need to acknowledge and access the multiple, contested meanings that are attributed to food supply chains (FSCs) over recent years and argue that producers, policy-makers and consumers are to have the cognitive tools to enable them to make informed decisions about the broader impacts of the different FSCs they engage with.
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Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways
Frank W. Geels,Johan Schot +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a typology of four transition pathways: transformation, reconfiguration, technological substitution, and de-alignment and re-alignments is presented, which differ in combinations of timing and nature of multi-level interactions.
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An essay on framing and overflowing: economic externalities revisited by sociology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the role played by the technosciences in the proliferation of overflows, highlighting the active role of the social sciences-alongside the natural sciences-in the identification and management of externalities.
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Growing Grassroots Innovations: Exploring the Role of Community-Based Initiatives in Governing Sustainable Energy Transitions:
Gill Seyfang,Alex Haxeltine +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of community-based initiatives in a transition to a low-carbon sustainable economy in the UK is examined and the authors present new empirical research from a study of the UK's Transition Towns movement (a "grassroots innovation") and assess its attempts to grow and inflence wider societal sociotechnical systems.
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Food Security: A Post-modern Perspective
TL;DR: The authors explores post-modern currents in food security and identifies three main shifts in thinking about food security since the World Food Conference of 1974: from the global and the national to the household and the individual; from a food first perspective to a livelihood perspective; and from objective indicators to subjective perception.
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The future of the global food system
H. Charles J. Godfray,I. R. Crute,Lawrence Haddad,David Lawrence,James F. Muir,Nicholas Nisbett,Jules Pretty,Sherman Robinson,Camilla Toulmin,Rosalind Whiteley +9 more
TL;DR: The collected papers suggest that major advances in sustainable food production and availability can be achieved with the concerted application of current technologies (given sufficient political will), and the importance of investing in research sooner rather than later to enable the food system to cope with both known and unknown challenges in the coming decades.
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