Food Systems Sustainability: An Examination of Different Viewpoints on Food System Change
| Autor: | Nick Taylor Buck, E. Gunilla Almered Olsson, Paul Otieno Opiyo, Stephen Gaya Agong, Gareth Haysom, Mirek Dymitrow, Michael Oloko, Shelley Kotze, Kristina Fermskog, Charlotte Spring, Karin Ingelhag |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Value (ethics)
media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development lcsh:TJ807-830 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography lcsh:Renewable energy sources 02 engineering and technology Management Monitoring Policy and Law Human geography Conversation Sociology lcsh:Environmental sciences media_common lcsh:GE1-350 Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry wicked problems lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning Public relations Viewpoints sustainability Variety (cybernetics) lcsh:TD194-195 Sustainability urban food system food systems change Food systems business urban food security 050703 geography Discipline |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 12, p 3337 (2019) Sustainability Volume 11 Issue 12 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | Global food insecurity levels remain stubbornly high. One of the surest ways to grasp the scale and consequence of global inequality is through a food systems lens. In a predominantly urban world, urban food systems present a useful lens to engage a wide variety of urban (and global) challenges&mdash so called &lsquo wicked problems.&rsquo This paper describes a collaborative research project between four urban food system research units, two European and two African. The project purpose was to seek out solutions to what lay between, across and within the different approaches applied in the understanding of each city&rsquo s food system challenges. Contextual differences and immediate (perceived) needs resulted in very different views on the nature of the challenge and the solutions required. Value positions of individuals and their disciplinary &ldquo enclaves&rdquo presented further boundaries. The paper argues that finding consensus provides false solutions. Rather the identification of novel approaches to such wicked problems is contingent of these differences being brought to the fore, being part of the conversation, as devices through which common positions can be discovered, where spaces are created for the realisation of new perspectives, but also, where difference is celebrated as opposed to censored. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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