Sustainable Food Security: An Emerging Research and Policy Agenda

As a response to emerging calls for the adoption of a systemic approach to address food security, in this paper we attempt to identify and discuss the tangible and often inextricably linked barriers to “sustainable food security”. Based on an extensive analysis of recent academic and policy literature on the economic, social and ecological effects of global environmental change at different stages of the food system, we highlight a series of cross-cutting issues and areas of disconnection between food production and consumption that call for a renovated effort to focus (both theoretically and practically) on the different nodal points of the food system. As we suggest, a sustainable food security framework should move away from the conventional focus on individual components of the food system (e.g., supply and demand) and address more holistically the complex relationships between its different stages and actors.

SONNINO Roberta;  MORAGUES FAUS Ana;  MAGGIO Albino; 

2014-03-13

School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University (UK) and the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and the Lifelong Learning Society, Florida Atlantic University (USA).

JRC88520

07981759,