Abstract

The role of root and tuber crops in strengthening agri‐food system resilience in Asia. A literature review and selective stakeholder assessment.

Highlights

  • In recognition of the important contribution that root and tuber crops (RTCs) can make to food security in Asia, in 2010 the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) invited the International Potato Center (CIP) to develop a research proposal

  • From its use to describe engineering systems that are close to equilibrium, the concept evolved to characterize non‐linear systems far from equilibrium in ecology and later, in social‐ecological systems where resilience derives from the complex interactions of ecosystems and social systems

  • Drawing on this literature and on earlier food security work by FoodSTART, a provisional conceptual framework was proposed to help understand the relationship between shocks and stressors and the social‐ ecological system

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Summary

Introduction

In recognition of the important contribution that root and tuber crops (RTCs) can make to food security in Asia, in 2010 the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) invited the International Potato Center (CIP) to develop a research proposal. The project Food Security Through Asian Root and Tuber Crops (hereinafter referred to as FoodSTART) included an objective to understand and document current roles of RTCs in contributing to food security, including through increased income generation To systematically approach this objective, the FoodSTART team developed a food security conceptual framework (Campilan et al 2014). There has been a conceptual cloudiness in its association with food vulnerability – a concern with the actual or future lack of access to food leading to food insecurity – and with food resilience – at least part of which involves the maintenance of food security over time, or the capacity to return to a stable state of food security after perturbation1 Another difficulty is that whereas food availability, access and utilization can be studied as outcomes at a particular point in time and were readily accommodated within the mostly synchronic focus of the assessments and thematic studies of FoodSTART phase 1, it was more difficult to examine food stability or vulnerability over time. Another difficulty is that whereas food availability, access and utilization can be studies as outcomes at a particular point in time, the lack of sufficient elapsed time in the assessments and thematic studies of FoodSTART phase 1 made it difficult to examine food stability

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