Sustainable agrifood systems are critical to averting climate-driven social and ecological disasters, overcoming the growth paradigm and redefining the interactions of humanity and nature in the twenty-first century. This Perspective describes an agenda and examples for comprehensive agrifood system redesign...
The study investigated the influence of externalities on sustainable agri-food systems. The purpose was to find out the extent to which the inclusion of the cost of externalities in the price of food will translate to a more sustainable agricultural food system. The study used the cross-sectional...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) needs to prioritize building resilient and sustainable agrifood systems to achieve its objective of becoming a major contributor towards food security in the region, a report from ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department (IED) said. The report examines how well-...
This paper analyses first the role of the potato in global food security using the agri-food systems approach. An explicit distinction is made between two contrasting stages of food system evolution, rural and industrial food systems, and the synergies that will strengthen the potato’s contribution...
2. State of the art and challenges for agri-food LCA in answering sustainability and food security issues 3. Variability in food LCA 4. Modelling issues specific to agricultural systems 5. Databases in food LCA 6. Role of consumers, governments and of the industry 7. Modelling food waste wit...
Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 37 (1): 115‑26. doi:10.1080/10440046.2012.735633.FERNANDEZ, Margarita; GOODALL, Katherine; OLSON, Meryl; e MENDEZ, V. Ernesto (2013). "Agroecology and Alternative Agri-Food Movements in the United States: Toward a Sustainable Agri- Food System". ...
Research on agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) has attracted significant attention in recent years due to the challenges associated with sustainably feeding t
Special Issue: Agroecology and the Transformation of Agri-Food Systems: Transdisciplinary and Participatory Perspectives BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Pelitinib is a potent irreversible EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor currently in clinical trials for the treatment of lung cancer. Hy... VE Méndez,CM Bacon,R...
Agrobiodiversity Sustainable food systems Agri-food sector Impact investment Sustainable finance Decision-making tool Green bonds Green investment 1. Introduction 1.1. Food systems out of (planetary) bounds Recent scientific work has illustrated that food sits at the heart of several sustainability dilemmas...
food systems, amount to only US$20 billion annually i.e., less than four percent of the total climate finance.[10]Such a shortfall of climate finance flows in AFOLU, with an increased gap from what has been projected, threatens the sustainability of the agri-food systems given the rising ...