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This chapter argues for shifting the framework away from food “systems” and moving toward food “ecosystems.” This change is long overdue given the increasing challenges the foodscape has been facing in terms of human, environmental, economic, and cultural health. Herein, we identify and propose six basic aspects that constitute a food ecosystem: instances, actors, connections between them, elements that they exchange, environment, and scale. A careful examination of these aspects, and how they all interact within a given context, can shed light on the full scope of food’s impact and implications. This framework can also serve as a set of guidelines for making more systemic food-related, synchronous and asynchronous case studies, which in turn could have greater impact in generating sustainable improvements. |
