A rapid assessment framework for food system shocks: Lessons learned from COVID-19 in the Indo-Pacific region.

Autor: Butler JRA; CSIRO Land and Water, Brisbane, Australia., Davila F; Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia., Alders R; Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia., Bourke RM; College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia., Crimp S; Climate Change Institute, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia., McCarthy J; Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia., McWilliam A; School of Social Science, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia., Palo ASM; Foodlink Advocacy Co-operative, Manila, Philippines., Robins L; Climate Change Institute, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia., Webb MJ; CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Townsville, Australia., van Wensveen M; CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australia., Sanderson T; Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research, Canberra, Australia., Walker D; Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research, Canberra, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental science & policy [Environ Sci Policy] 2021 Mar; Vol. 117, pp. 34-45. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Dec 23.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.12.011
Abstrakt: The frequency and severity of shocks to food systems is accelerating globally, exemplified by the current COVID-19 outbreak. In low- and middle-income countries, the impacts have exacerbated existing food system vulnerabilities and poverty. Governments and donors must respond quickly, but few tools are available that identify interventions to build food system resilience, or emerging opportunities for transformation. In this paper we reflect on the application of a systems-based rapid assessment which we applied across 11 Indo-Pacific countries in May-July 2020. Our approach was shaped by three design parameters: the integration of key informants' perspectives engaged remotely within the countries, applicability to diverse food systems and COVID-19 experiences across the region, and the consideration of food systems as complex systems. For the rapid assessment we adopted an analytical framework proposed by Allen and Prosperi (2016). To include a development lens, we added the analysis of vulnerable groups and their exposure, impacts, recovery potential and resilience, and pro-poor interventions. We concluded that the framework and approach facilitated integration and triangulation of disparate knowledge types and data to identify priority interventions and was sufficiently flexible to be applied across food systems, at both national, sub-national and commodity scales. The step-wise method was simple and enabled structured inquiry and reporting. Although the systems concepts appeared more easily transferrable to key informants in some countries than others, potentially transformational interventions were identified, and also some risks of maladaptation. We present a refined framework that emphasises analysis of political, economic and institutional drivers of exposure and vulnerability, the constraints that they pose for building recovery potential and resilience, and trade-offs amongst winners and losers inherent in proposed interventions.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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