Abstract
Dominant agricultural and food systems lead to continuous resource depletion and unacceptable environmental and social impacts. While current calls for changing agrifood systems are increasingly framed in the context of sustainability transitions, they rarely make an explicit link to transition studies to address these systemic challenges, nor do transition scholars sufficiently address agri-food systems, despite their global pertinence. From this viewpoint, we illustrate several gaps in the agri-food systems debate that sustainability transition studies could engage in. We propose four avenues for research in the next decade of transition research on agri-food systems: 1) Crossscale dynamics between coupled systems; 2) Social justice, equity and inclusion; 3) Sustainability transitions in low- and middle-income countries; 4) Cross-sectoral governance and system integration. We call for a decade of new transition research that moves beyond single-scale and sector perspectives toward more inclusive and integrated analyses of food system dynamics.
Highlights
Today’s dominant agricultural and food systems lead to continuous resource depletion and unacceptable environmental and social impacts (Crippa et al, 2021; Rockstrom et al, 2020)
Political, and scholarly actors continue to push for the transformation of agri-food systems (Barrett et al, 2020; Hebinck et al, 2021; Klerkx and Begemann, 2020; Zurek et al, 2021)
We propose four gaps to be addressed in the decade of transition research on agri-food systems and ways to consolidate with existing perspectives in agri-food studies
Summary
Today’s dominant agricultural and food systems lead to continuous resource depletion and unacceptable environmental and social impacts (Crippa et al, 2021; Rockstrom et al, 2020). Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions xxx (xxxx) xxx sustainability transitions (e.g., Barrett et al, 2020), they rarely make an explicit link to transition studies to address these systemic challenges, nor do transition scholars sufficiently address agri-food systems, despite their global pertinence (Kohler et al, 2019). From this viewpoint, we illustrate several gaps in the agri-food systems debate that sustainability transition studies could engage in. The engagement of transition studies in debates on broader agri-food systems change has been limited (Melchior and Newig, 2021)
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